Torrington is a city in, and the county chair of, Goshen County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 6,501 at the 2010 census.

It is the home of Eastern Wyoming College, and is the surrounding region’s middle of want ad activity. Within this primarily agricultural community, there are several fertilizer plants, a sugar beet factory, and numerous tourist services and retail businesses that sustain the local and easy to use rural populations.

Situated on the historic Mormon Trail and close the Oregon and California trails along the banks of the North Platte River, Torrington was founded in 1900 by W.G. Curtis (1857–1913), and named by him for his home town of Torrington, Connecticut. Originally a watering and coaling station for the CB&Q Railroad, which began passenger bolster in 1900, the growing city soon became the main source of civilization for comprehensible farmers and ranchers. In 1905, the first bridge was build up over the North Platte River, which it had in the past been indispensable to ford.

A proclaim office called Torrington was traditional in 1889 on W. G. Curtis’ farm three miles west of where the town of Torrington would accomplishment 1900, with W. G. Curtis serving as Postmaster and forward-thinking as mayor. By 1908 the town was incorporated as a town in Laramie County. It had a bank, three general stores, a pharmacy taking into account a soda fountain, a land office, and two hotels (for one of which the building, although modified, still exists at 1841 Main Street.) It soon became a central place of trade for Goshen County, and for surrounding areas in eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska.