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 | |
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 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 / 38.82556°N 103.01167°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  Colorado |
| County | Cheyenne County |
| Elevation | 4,475 ft (1,364 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-7 (MST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-6 (MDT) |
| ZIP code[2] | 80862 |
| Area code | 719 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0195193 |
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 edit
Wild Horse is located at 38°49′32″N 103°00′42″W / 38.82556°N 103.01167°W (38.825533,-103.011761).
Popular culture edit
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 edit
- ^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
- ^ 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.