The town has gained notoriety as a speed trap due to numerous references citing its aggressive enforcement of traffic laws.

[5] Shoshoni has a dramatic increase in visitors in the summer, when roads to Yellowstone National Park are open.

Charles Henry King, a prominent millionaire businessman and banker later based in Omaha, Nebraska, built the C.H.

King Company and First Union Bank Building, formerly occupied by Yellowstone Drug Store.

King and his wife Martha were the paternal grandparents of President Gerald Ford, who was born in their Omaha house in July 1913.

In 2004 a water-intensive mushroom processing plant began operation on land that was annexed by the town and put within its limits.

This labor practice stopped when a Department of Homeland Security investigation revealed that some of the workers had problems with their immigration histories.

[6] During operations, the plant's composting bunkers emitted unpleasant odors, resulting in numerous complaints from residents during 2005.

The plant installed a stack and ventilating system in early 2006 to control and disperse odor from the composting bunkers.

[7][8] In 2009, the facility was up put up for sale[9] and purchased in January 2020 by Iglesia Ni Cristo, a Philippines-based religious sect with the intent of using local "honor based" labor to work in the facility.

[10] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.58 square miles (9.27 km2), all land.

Public education in the town of Shoshoni is provided by Fremont County School District #24.

The district has one campus – Shoshoni Elementary School (grades K–12) Weekly intercity bus service to Cheyenne and Billings, MT is provided by Express Arrow.

[17] Marcus Sakey, in his Brilliance trilogy, lists Shoshoni as one of the three entrances (along with Gillette and Rawlins) to the New Canaan Holdfast, a large portion of Wyoming land owned by "abnorms".