Goose Egg, Wyoming

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Goose Egg is an unincorporated community located in Natrona County, Wyoming, United States. It is 5,344 feet above sea level. It appears to have been named for a natural feature,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0Ia7Rga26OkC&dq=%22Goose+egg%2C+WY%22&pg=PA263 |title=You Live Where?|first=George E. |last=Thompson |publisher=iUniverse |isbn=9781440134210 |year=2009 |access-date=October 28, 2016}} namely, a nest of goose eggs laid by a Canada goose.{{cite web|url=http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=5015.735;wap2|first=Rick|last=Bonander|work=Road Trip (blog)|title=A close call on the C.Y. cattle trail|access-date=October 28, 2016}}

Goose Egg lies within Natrona County School District Number 1. It once had a post office, which has closed as of 2016. The United States Geological Survey had a water station at Coal Creek near Goose Egg, from the 1960s through the 1980s.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oXbxAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22Goose+egg%2C+WY%22&pg=PA576|title=United States Geological Survey Water-supply Paper|publisher=United States Geological Survey|page=576|year=2001|access-date=October 28, 2016}}

Goose Egg was the residence of songwriter Albert Norton, composer of Our boys are marching again, a patriotic ditty composed in 1943 during World War II.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AzZjAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Goose+egg%2C+WY%22&pg=PA969|title=Catalog of Copyright entries |publisher=United States Copyright Office |page=959 |year=1943 |access-date=October 28, 2016}}