Wild Horse, Colorado

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Wild Horse, Colorado
Unincorporated community
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Wild Horse in June 2007 with U.S. Highway 40/287 running through it.
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Location in Cheyenne County and the state of Colorado
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Wild Horse, Colorado (the United States)
Coordinates: 38°49′32″N103°00′42″W / 38.82556°N 103.01167°W / 38.82556; -103.01167 Coordinates: 38°49′32″N103°00′42″W / 38.82556°N 103.01167°W / 38.82556; -103.01167
Country Flag of the United States.svg  United States
State Flag of Colorado.svg  Colorado
County Cheyenne County
Elevation
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4,475 ft (1,364 m)
Time zone UTC-7 (MST)
 • Summer (DST) UTC-6 (MDT)
ZIP code [2]
80862
Area code(s) 719
GNIS feature ID 0195193

Wild Horse is an unincorporated village in Cheyenne County, Colorado, United States. 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.

Contents

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]

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References

  1. ↑ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
  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 11 July 2016.
  5. ↑ "Netflix's "Space Force," set in Colorado, is too impolitical for the times and, frankly, not funny". 29 May 2020.
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