SHERIDAN — Sheridan County ended 2020 on a high note with taxable sales increasing by 9.6% from the fourth quarter of 2019 to the fourth quarter of 2020.

The county saw the fourth-highest year-to-year increase in taxable sales in the state, behind only Lincoln County (56% increase), Teton County (20.8% increase) and Washakie County (11.3% increase), according to the Wyoming Economic Analysis Division.

Sheridan County is one of the few bright spots in a state that saw an overall decline of 9.3% in taxable sales compared to the final quarter of 2019. Fourteen of the state’s 23 counties saw year-to-year declines in the fourth quarter of 2020, with the biggest losses seen in counties dependent on the still-floundering mineral extraction industry.

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