Spotted Horse, Wyoming

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Spotted Horse is an unincorporated community in Campbell County, Wyoming, United States. Its current population is two.{{Cite web |url=http://www.esquire.com/bestbars/bb-SpottedHorseBar |title=The Spotted Horse Bar - Esquire |access-date=2012-05-25 |archive-date=2009-04-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412102026/http://www.esquire.com/bestbars/bb-SpottedHorseBar |url-status=dead }} 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.{{cite web |last1=Olive |first1=W.W. |title=The Spotted Horse Coalfield, Sheridan and Campbell Countis, Wyoming, Geological Survey Bulletin 1050 |url=https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1050/report.pdf |publisher=U.S. Geological Survey |date=1957 |access-date=2019-01-10 |archive-date=2019-05-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501115952/https://pubs.usgs.gov/bul/1050/report.pdf |url-status=live }}

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The town was named after a Native American. Its post office closed in 1964.{{Cite web |url=http://wyld.sdp.sirsi.net/maps/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2013-08-10 |archive-date=2017-05-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170508200030/http://wyld.sdp.sirsi.net/maps/ |url-status=dead }}

History

The Astorian expedition camped near the future Spotted Horse townsite in 1811.{{cite book |last1=Moulton |first1=Candy |title=Roadside History of Wyoming |date=1995 |publisher=Mountain Press |isbn=0-87842-316-8 |page=341}}

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.{{cite news |last1=Bleizeffer |first1=Dustin |title=Spotted Horse still bucks |url=https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/spotted-horse-still-bucks/article_fc34ef93-bb58-5f39-aea5-447b7a12e95b.html |accessdate=10 January 2019 |publisher=Casper Star-Tribune |date=July 11, 2005 |archive-date=10 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190110133728/https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/spotted-horse-still-bucks/article_fc34ef93-bb58-5f39-aea5-447b7a12e95b.html |url-status=live }}

File:Spotted Horse Wyoming circa 1960 WY1.jpg

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