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Encampment (also known as Grand Encampment) is a town in southern Carbon County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 450 at the 2010 census.

Encampment town overview:
Name:	Encampment town
LSAD Code:	43
LSAD Description:	town (suffix)
State:	Wyoming
County:	Carbon County
Elevation:	7,277 ft (2,218 m)
Total Area:	1.60 sq mi (4.14 km²)
Land Area:	1.60 sq mi (4.14 km²)
Water Area:	0.00 sq mi (0.00 km²)
Total Population:	450
Population Density:	266.75/sq mi (102.99/km²)
Area code:	307
FIPS code:	5624750

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History

Known also as ” Grand Encampment”, this town along the Colorado-Wyoming border was, at the turn of the twentieth century, a booming center of copper mining and smelting. At one point a sixteen-mile tramway was built to carry copper ore from the mountains into the town for smelting. This steam powered tramway was, at the time, the longest in the world. A sharp drop in copper prices and disastrous fires drove the mining company into bankruptcy. Mining operations ceased in the early twentieth century. A large sawmill operated in the town between 1950 and 1998.

The Grand Encampment Museum is located in Encampment. It highlights the copper mining, ranching, logging history in the area. It includes over 15 historic buildings and thousands of interesting objects. A research library is located in the main gallery, the Doc Culleton Interpretive Center.