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 27, 2026.
Lincoln County, Wyoming, has about 21,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and arrests there are reported to the FBI by the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office and five city agencies. 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 Lincoln 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: Lincoln County public records, Wyoming arrest records, Wyoming inmate search and Wyoming criminal records.
Who Makes Arrests in Lincoln County
The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office is the county agency that reports arrests to the FBI for Lincoln County. It reported 119 arrests for 2025.
The FBI lists five cities in Lincoln County with a reporting agency of their own, with the Census population and what each reported:
- Kemmerer, 2,378 residents: 84 arrests reported for 2019.
- Afton, 2,280 residents: 11 arrests reported for 2025.
- Diamondville, 517 residents: 3 arrests reported for 2025.
- Cokeville, 490 residents: 11 arrests reported for 2025.
- La Barge, 395 residents: 1,152 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 Lincoln County
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts 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.
- La Barge: 1,152 for 2025, 1,152 for 2024, 1,146 for 2023, 1,132 for 2022, 919 for 2021 and 1,146 for 2020.
- Lincoln County Sheriff's Office: 119 for 2025, 178 for 2024, 159 for 2023, 146 for 2022 and 84 for 2019; 2020 and 2021 are missing months.
- Afton: 11 for 2025, 21 for 2020 and 60 for 2019; 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 are missing months.
- Cokeville: 11 for 2025.
- Diamondville: 3 for 2025, 5 for 2024, 1 for 2023, 10 for 2022, 10 for 2021 and 7 for 2020.
- Kemmerer: 84 for 2019.
Together, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2025 on file reported 1,296 arrests that year. The three of them with both 2025 and 2024 complete reported 1,274 in 2025 against 1,335 in 2024, down 4.6 percent.
Through July 2026, the four agencies with every month so far on file reported 604 arrests, against 692 in the same months of 2025.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Lincoln County Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Lincoln 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 2024 the jail held about 55 people, up from about 49 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2023, the last year with a capacity figure, was 104 beds, and it ran at 37 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 Lincoln County Sheriff's Office at p2c.lincolnsheriff.org/jailinmates.aspx (page title: Lincoln County Sheriffs Office P2C), which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 27, 2026.
A sentence of more than a year is served in state prison; the Wyoming Department of Corrections lists its inmates at wdoc-loc.wyo.gov.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Lincoln County
An arrest in Lincoln County can be traced in two places, depending on where the case stands: the case index of the District Court for Lincoln County, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at lincolncountywy.gov/government/clerk_of_district_court/index.php, phone (307)877-9056); the County Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at lincolncountywy.gov/government/attorney/index.php, phone (307)877-9056).
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 Lincoln 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 Lincoln County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- An arrest in Kemmerer, Afton, Diamondville, Cokeville or La Barge: 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)877-9056, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the District Court for Lincoln County, through the court records page at lincolncountywy.gov, phone (307)877-9056.
- Your own statewide record: a fingerprint-based request to the Division of Criminal Investigation.
Cities in Lincoln County: Who Reports the Arrests
The FBI lists a separate arrest reporting agency for five of the nine cities in Lincoln County: Kemmerer, Afton, Diamondville, Cokeville and La Barge. Star Valley Ranch, Alpine, Thayne and Opal 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 Lincoln County.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Lincoln County each year?
La Barge reported 1,152 arrests to the FBI for 2025, and the five agencies with every month of 2025 on file reported 1,296 between them.
How do I find out if someone is in jail in Lincoln County?
Ask the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office; its jail page SearchSystems verified is at p2c.lincolnsheriff.org/jailinmates.aspx.
Where are people arrested in Lincoln County booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Lincoln County?
The court files of criminal cases in the District Court for Lincoln 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 Lincoln County?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Lincoln 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 Lincoln 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.