Wild Horse, Colorado

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Wild Horse, Colorado
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 38°49′32″N103°00′42″W / 38.82556°N 103.01167°W / 38.82556; -103.01167 [1]
Country United States
State Colorado
County Cheyenne
Elevation
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4,475 ft (1,364 m)
Time zone UTC−7 (MST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC−6 (MDT)
ZIP Code
80862 [2]
Area code 719
FIPS code 08-84915 [1]
GNIS ID 195193 [1]

Wild Horse is an unincorporated community in Cheyenne County, Colorado, United States. [1]

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History

The community takes its name from Wild Horse Creek, [3] and began in 1869 as a cavalry outpost, which soon became a railway station and had expanded to a town by the mid-1870s. After a peak of population and business activities in the early 1900s, the town began dwindling by 1917, when most of it burned down in a great fire. The town rebuilt, but never at the population or business-service centralization level of its earlier years, and by the 1930s, had begun to dwindle further.

There is still a post office at Wild Horse, which has been in operation since 1904. [4] and currently services ZIP Code 80862. [2] There is also a one-room school house, no longer in use, and a cluster of older small homes.

Geography

Wild Horse is located at 38°49′32″N103°00′42″W / 38.82556°N 103.01167°W / 38.82556; -103.01167 (38.825533,-103.011761).

Wild Horse is the home of the United States Space Force in the Netflix comedy series Space Force , although the series was not actually filmed in the village. [5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Wild Horse, Colorado", Geographic Names Information System , United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior
  2. 1 2 "ZIP Code Lookup" (JavaScript/HTML). United States Postal Service. January 3, 2007. Retrieved January 3, 2007.
  3. ↑ Dawson, John Frank (1954). Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin. Denver, CO: The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co. p. 52.
  4. ↑ "Post offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Netflix's "Space Force," set in Colorado, is too impolitical for the times and, frankly, not funny". May 29, 2020.
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