Wild Horse, Colorado

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.

Wild Horse, Colorado
Unincorporated community
Wild Horse in June 2007 with U.S. Highway 40/287 running through it.
Location in Cheyenne County and the state of Colorado
Wild Horse, Colorado (the United States)
Coordinates: 38°49′32″N 103°00′42″W
Country United States
State Colorado
CountyCheyenne County
Elevation4,475 ft (1,364 m)
Time zoneUTC-7 (MST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-6 (MDT)
ZIP code[2]
80862
Area code(s)719
GNIS feature ID0195193

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″N 103°00′42″W (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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gollark: The electoral college appears to do something you could approximately describe as that but which is weirdly skewed in some ways.
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References
  1. "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2008-01-31.
  2. "ZIP Code Lookup" (JavaScript/HTML). United States Postal Service. January 3, 2007. Retrieved January 3, 2007.
  3. Dawson, John Frank. 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.
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