Wyoming
- Belle Fourche River
- Bondurant
- Calpet
- Cheyenne (from the French pronunciation and spelling of the Dakota word Sahi'yena, a diminutive of Sahi'ya, a Dakotan name for the Cree people.)
- Dubois (named after U.S. Senator Fred Dubois, of French-Canadian ancestry)
- Fontenelle
- Fremont County (named for John C. Frémont, French-American pioneer and politician)
- Gilette
- Grand Teton National Park (from French grands tétons, "large teats" - presumably referring to the mountains' shape)
- La Barge
- La Grange
- Laramie (named from Jacques LaRamie, a French-speaking Canadian trapper who disappeared in the Laramie Mountains in the late 1810s)
- Laramie County
- Platte County
- Ranchettes
- Rozet
- Sublette County
- Teton County
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“The admission of the States of Wyoming and Idaho to the Union are events full of interest and congratulation, not only to the people of those States now happily endowed with a full participation in our privileges and responsibilities, but to all our people. Another belt of States stretches from the Atlantic to the Pacific.”
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