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Should the seat of the newly carved-out county be in Jackson? Or should it be in Kelly?
It doesnât seem like much of a decision today, with Jackson a thriving tourist mecca of more than 10,000 and Kelly with its Wikipedia-estimated population of 138.
But it was a real question in 1921, the year that the scattered citizens of Jackson Hole argued whether they should break away from Lincoln County to create their own county. There was some debate even about that.
With the county seat of Kemmerer being about 210 miles away, much of it unpaved and often closed by snow and mud, the thriving town of Jackson and its outpost communities had had about enough of long-distance governance. They figured some local control was overdue for a community that had a big impression of itself as a growing hub of business.