Douglas is a city in and the county seat of Converse County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 6,386 at the 2020 census. It is the home of the Wyoming State Fair. Douglas was platted in 1886 when the Wyoming Central Railway established a railway station; the settlement had been in existence since 1867 when Fort Fetterman was built and was first known as "Tent City" before it was officially named "Douglas", after Senator Stephen A. Douglas. It served as a supply point, warehousing and retail, for surrounding cattle ranches, as well as servicing railway crews, cowboys and the troops of the U.S. Army stationed at Fort Fetterman.
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