Spotted Horse is an unincorporated community in Campbell County, Wyoming, United States. Its current population is two.[2] The town is on U.S. routes 14/16, at the head of Spotted Horse Creek, a tributary of the Powder River. The undeveloped Spotted Horse coalfield is north of town.[3]
Spotted Horse, Wyoming | |
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 Central Spotted Horse | |
  Spotted Horse Location within the state of Wyoming  Spotted Horse Spotted Horse (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 44°42′30″N 105°50′6″W / 44.70833°N 105.83500°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Wyoming |
| County | Campbell |
| Elevation | 4,026 ft (1,227 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-7 (Mountain (MST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-6 (MST) |
| GNIS feature ID | 1597506[1] |
The town was named after a Native American. Its post office closed in 1964.[4]
History
editThe Astorian expedition camped near the future Spotted Horse townsite in 1811.[5]
A small community lived at the site in the 19th century. By about 1900 Solon and George Walker established a general store and post office. A.L. Pringle established the present bar as a store and gas station in the early 1920s. A school was established in the 1920s. A dance hall was destroyed in a 1944 tornado.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Spotted Horse, Wyoming
- ^ "The Spotted Horse Bar - Esquire". Archived from the original on April 12, 2009. Retrieved May 25, 2012.
- ^ Olive, W.W. (1957). "The Spotted Horse Coalfield, Sheridan and Campbell Countis, Wyoming, Geological Survey Bulletin 1050" (PDF). U.S. Geological Survey. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 1, 2019. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 8, 2017. Retrieved August 10, 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Moulton, Candy (1995). Roadside History of Wyoming. Mountain Press. p. 341. ISBN 0-87842-316-8.
- ^ Bleizeffer, Dustin (July 11, 2005). "Spotted Horse still bucks". Casper Star-Tribune. Archived from the original on January 10, 2019. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
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