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City in Wyoming, United States
1892Established
33,403Population
21.7 sq miArea
4,554 ftElevation

Gillette (, jih-LET) is a city in and the county seat of Campbell County, Wyoming, United States. The town was founded in 1891 as a major railway town on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. The population was estimated at 33,496, as of July 1, 2023, making it the third-most populous city in Wyoming after Cheyenne and Casper. Gillette's population had increased 48% in the ten years after the 2000 census, which counted 19,646 residents, after a boom in its local fossil fuel industries. Gillette is centrally located in an area devoted to the development of vast quantities of coal, oil, and coalbed methane gas. The city calls itself the "Energy Capital of the Nation", because Wyoming p…

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ZIP code82716, 82717, 82718
Area code307

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