Sheridan County, Wyoming

Denominational Groups, 2000

2,773	3,272		5,341	991	14,183
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	66	2.8
Catholic Church	Catholic	3	2,994	127.1
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	13	0.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	265	11.3
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	1	n.a.	n.a.
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	65	2.8
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	1	23	1.0
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	3	842	35.7
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	106	4.5
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	2	85	3.6
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	1,043	44.3
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	1	1,076	45.7
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	1	10	0.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	52	2.2
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	642	27.3
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	1	n.a.	n.a.
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	1	560	23.8
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	20	0.9
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	128	5.4
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	3	316	13.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	1	175	7.4
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	1	537	22.8
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	1	260	11.0
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	31	9,278

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 23,562. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (9,278) include 39.4% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.