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Unincorporated community in Wyoming, United States
Spotted Horse, Wyoming
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Coordinates: 44°42′30″N 105°50′6″W / 44.70833°N 105.83500°W / 44.70833; -105.83500
CountryUnited States
StateWyoming
CountyCampbell
Elevation4,026 ft (1,227 m)
Time zoneUTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-6 (MST)
GNIS feature ID1597506

Spotted Horse is an unincorporated community in Campbell County, Wyoming, United States. Its current population is two. 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.

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

History

The Astorian expedition camped near the future Spotted Horse townsite in 1811.

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.

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 April 12, 2009. Retrieved May 25, 2012.
  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 May 1, 2019. Retrieved January 10, 2019.
  4. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 8, 2017. Retrieved August 10, 2013.{{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 January 10, 2019. Retrieved January 10, 2019.

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Municipalities and communities of Campbell County, Wyoming, United States
County seat: Gillette
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