Shawnee is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...

 in southeastern Converse County, Wyoming

Wyoming

Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High...

, United States

United States

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. It lies along the concurrent

Concurrency (road)

A concurrency, overlap, or coincidence in a road network is an instance of one physical road bearing two or more different highway, motorway, or other route numbers...

 U.S. Routes 18

U.S. Route 18

U.S. Route 18 is an east–west U.S. highway in the Midwestern United States. The western terminus is in Orin, Wyoming at an interchange with Interstate 25. Its eastern terminus of US 18 is in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. However, US 18 runs concurrent with other U.S...

 and 20

U.S. Route 20

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 east of the city of Douglas

Douglas, Wyoming

Douglas is a city in Converse County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 5,288 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Converse County...

, the county seat

County seat

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 of Converse County. Its elevation is 5,059 feet (1,542 m). Although Shawnee is unincorporated, it has a post office

Post office

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, with the ZIP code

ZIP Code

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 of 82229.

Education

Public education in the community of Shawnee is provided by Converse County School District #1

Converse County School District Number 1

Converse County School District #1 is a public school district based in Douglas, Wyoming, United States.-Geography:Converse County School District #1 serves the eastern portion of Converse County, including the following communities:...

. Zoned campuses include Shawnee School (grades K-8) and Douglas High School (grades 9-12).