Wild Horse is an unincorporated community in Cheyenne County, Colorado, United States.[1]
Wild Horse, Colorado | |
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 View from U.S. Highway 40/287 (2007) | |
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| Coordinates: 38°49′32″N 103°00′42″W / 38.82556°N 103.01167°W[1] | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Colorado |
| County | Cheyenne |
| Elevation | 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] |
History
editThe 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
editWild Horse is located at 38°49′32″N 103°00′42″W / 38.82556°N 103.01167°W (38.825533,-103.011761).
Popular culture
editWild 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
edit- ^ a b c d e "Wild Horse, Colorado", Geographic Names Information System, United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior
- ^ a b "ZIP Code Lookup" (JavaScript/HTML). United States Postal Service. January 3, 2007. Retrieved January 3, 2007.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Post offices". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved July 11, 2016.
- ^ "Netflix's "Space Force," set in Colorado, is too impolitical for the times and, frankly, not funny". May 29, 2020.