Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones each agency reported to the FBI, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 24, 2026 and September 28, 2026.
Hot Springs County, Wyoming, has about 4,600 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Hot Springs County Sheriff's Office and one city agency. An arrest leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the County Attorney files charges, a case in the District Court for Hot Springs County. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts each agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies, cities and common questions.
Related guides: Hot Springs County public records, Wyoming arrest records, Wyoming inmate search and Wyoming criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Hot Springs County
The Hot Springs County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Hot Springs County. It reported 60 arrests for 2025.
One city in Hot Springs County reports its arrests to the FBI separately:
- Thermopolis, 2,748 residents: 116 arrests reported for 2025.
A city on that list is reported separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
How Many Arrests Each Agency Reports in Hot Springs County
Each agency reports its arrests to the FBI by month, and the FBI publishes them on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Thermopolis: 116 for 2025, 185 for 2024, 202 for 2023, 292 for 2022, 219 for 2021 and 233 for 2020.
- Hot Springs County Sheriff's Office: 60 for 2025, 75 for 2024, 60 for 2023, 55 for 2021, 114 for 2020 and 146 for 2019; 2022 is missing months.
Together, the two agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 176 arrests that year. The same agencies with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 176 in 2025 against 260 in 2024, down 32 percent.
Through May 2026, the two agencies with every month so far on file reported 39 arrests, against 96 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Hot Springs County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Hot Springs County and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2019 the jail held about 16 people. Its rated capacity in 2019 was 32 beds, and it ran at 50 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
SearchSystems opened and checked the jail page of the Hot Springs County Sheriff's Office at hscounty.com/departments/sheriff (page title: Hot Springs County Sheriff | Hot Springs County Wyoming), phone 307-864-2622, which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 28, 2026.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Wyoming Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at wdoc-loc.wyo.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Hot Springs County
Whether someone was arrested in Hot Springs County, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the District Court for Hot Springs County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at hscounty.com/departments/clerk-of-court, phone 307-864-3323); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at hscounty.com/departments/attorney, phone 307-864-2004).
Wyoming does not let the public search another person's statewide criminal history. The record kept by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation goes to the person it belongs to and to employers and agencies the law authorizes; for everyone else the court's own case index is the public record of an arrest that led to a charge.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Hot Springs County
An arrest report belongs to the agency whose officer wrote it, and that agency releases it, not the court or the jail. Under the Wyoming Public Records Act the agency must answer within 30 days at most, and it may charge the actual cost of copying.
- An arrest by the Hot Springs County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit, reached through the office at 307-864-2622.
- An arrest in Thermopolis: the records unit of the agency that reports for that city.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the County Attorney, 307-864-2004, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Hot Springs County, through the court records page at hscounty.com/departments/clerk-of-court, phone 307-864-3323.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Division of Criminal Investigation.
Cities in Hot Springs County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for one of the three cities in Hot Springs County: Thermopolis. East Thermopolis and Kirby have no separate reporting agency in the FBI's list.
Wherever in the county the arrest happens, a person kept in custody goes to the county jail and the case goes to the District Court for Hot Springs County.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Hot Springs County each year?
Thermopolis reported 116 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the two agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 176 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Hot Springs County?
Ask the Hot Springs County Sheriff's Office at 307-864-2622; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at hscounty.com/departments/sheriff.
Where are people arrested in Hot Springs County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Hot Springs County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Hot Springs County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Hot Springs County are public and can be looked up through the court. The statewide criminal history kept by the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation is not public; you can get your own. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Wyoming Public Records Act.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Hot Springs County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Hot Springs County Sheriff's Office for its own arrests, or the agency that reports for the city where it happened. Under the Wyoming Public Records Act the answer is due within 30 days at most.
Is this the official Hot Springs County website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.