Spotted Horse, Wyoming
Unincorporated community in Wyoming, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 | |
| 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]
The 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]
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