Name: Arapahoe

 

County: Fremont

 

Authority Name:

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude: 1082923W

Latitude: 425744N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 5007/1526

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place

 

Origin of Name:

Named for the Arapahoe Indian tribe. Arapahoe was established by the Indian Service in 1880 as sub-agency for the Arapahoe tribe, who was placed on the eastern part of the Shoshone Reservation between the Big Wind and Popo Agie rivers in 1879. John C. Burnet operated a trading store there, which, at one time was the largest retail store in Fremont County.

Source: WPA

 

The town was platted by the Pioneer Town Site Company and was named from a nearby Arapahoe Indian reservation. The name is that of a noted Indian tribe and signifies "traders."

Source: Stennett

 

A trading post and Arapahoe Indian sub-agency.

Source: Annals 14(2)

 

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History:

Arapahoe Post Office was established as Arapahoe Agency Post Office in February, 1893 and its name changed to Arapahoe in May, 1906.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

Indian agency on the Shoshone Indian reservation, in Fremont County, 16 miles northeast of Lander, on the wyoming and Northwestern Railway.  

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

 

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Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Arapahoe

 

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