Uva, Wyoming

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Uva, Wyoming
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Uva, Wyoming
Coordinates: 42°07′55″N104°55′11″W / 42.13194°N 104.91972°W / 42.13194; -104.91972
Country United States
State Wyoming
County Platte
Elevation
4,475 ft (1,364 m)
Time zone UTC-7 (Mountain (MST))
  Summer (DST) UTC-6 (MDT)
Area code 307
GNIS feature ID1595893 [1]

Uva is an unincorporated community in Platte County, Wyoming, United States. [1]

Notable person

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Uva, Wyoming". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. 'Wyoming Blue Book' Volume IV, Centennial Editor, Loren Jost (editor), Wyoming State Archives: 1991, Biographical Sketch of Joe L. Chasteen, pg. 200


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