Spotted Horse, Wyoming

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
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Coordinates: 44°42′30″N 105°50′6″W
Country	United States
State	Wyoming
County	Campbell
Elevation [1]	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]

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