Hudson, WY

Hudson is a Fremont County town where the railroad, coal mines, and Wind River country meet. A post office has carried the Hudson name since 1907, and the town was incorporated in 1909. The name honors John T. Hudson, whose family held the original townsite. The Popo Agie Mines and the railroad built Hudson into a company town, with a bakery, hotel, banks, stores, stockyards, and a movie house serving the boom years. The last mine closed in 1941, but the town’s layout still carries that mining-era history.

The Yablonski Memorial Library reopened in late 2024 after volunteers cleaned and revived the former union-hall building. Its Monday hours give Hudson a small, visible place for books, puzzles, and community programs. Fremont County School District 1 connects local students to schools in the Lander area, while the northern edge of town reaches into the Wind River Indian Reservation. Hudson has a layered central Wyoming map: railroad town, former coal camp, library revival, and reservation boundary all meeting along the Little Popo Agie country.