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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
Unincorporated community
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
CountryUnited States
StateWyoming
CountyCampbell
Elevation
4,026 ft (1,227 m)
Time zoneUTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-6 (MST)
GNIS feature ID1597506[1]

The town was named after a Native American. Its post office closed in 1964.[4]


History


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]

The Spotted Horse store circa 1960
The Spotted Horse store circa 1960

References


  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Spotted Horse, Wyoming
  2. "The Spotted Horse Bar - Esquire". Archived from the original on 2009-04-12. Retrieved 2012-05-25.
  3. 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 2019-05-01. Retrieved 2019-01-10.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2017-05-08. Retrieved 2013-08-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. Moulton, Candy (1995). Roadside History of Wyoming. Mountain Press. p. 341. ISBN 0-87842-316-8.
  6. Bleizeffer, Dustin (July 11, 2005). "Spotted Horse still bucks". Casper Star-Tribune. Archived from the original on 10 January 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2019.


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