Riverton is a city in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States.

[6] The town was built on land ceded from the Wind River Indian Reservation, a situation that often makes it subject to jurisdictional claims by the nearby Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes.

The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the EPA, and held that the land had been ceded in 1905 by an Act of Congress.

[7] Riverton Regional Airport (now Central Wyoming Regional Airport) is home to a National Weather Service Forecast Office and NEXRAD radar site which is responsible to cover all of western and central Wyoming.

The Chicago & Northwestern Railway completed an extension of the "Cowboy Line" through to Lander which is roughly 22 miles west of Riverton.

Services were then discontinued in Riverton in the mid-1970's as the line was slowly dismantled west of Casper.

31.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

31.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 14.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

Public education in the city of Riverton is provided by Fremont County School District #25.

Central Wyoming College is located in Riverton, with off-campus sites in Jackson, Lander, Thermopolis, Dubois, and the Wind River Indian Reservation.

[17] Emergency services are provided by the Riverton Police Department, Riverton Volunteer Fire Department, Fremont County Fire Protection District Battalion 1, and Frontier Ambulance.

Wind River Transportation Authority provides transit service throughout Fremont County.