Name: Buford

 

County: Albany

 

Authority Name: Buford (Wyo.)

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1051817W

Latitude: 410719N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 7851/2393

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place

 

Origin of Name:

The name first became localized from the Fort John Buford military reservation. Buford was originally on the line between Albany and Laramie counties. The station has since been moved one mile west to present site.

Source: WPA 

 

Named after old Fort Buford.

Source: Annals 14(3)  

 

Other Names: New Buford

 

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History:

Buford Post Office was established on July 19, 1880 with John R. Hooper as its first postmaster. It was discontinued on August 4, 1881 but re-established on April 10, 1888. It was discontinued again on October 2, 1889 and established for a third time on August 10, 1900.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

Small country postoffice in Albany County on the Union Pacific Railway, 20 miles west from Cheyenne. Stock raising and mining the principal industries.  

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

 

A postoffice and station on the Union Pacific Railway, 27 miles east of Laramie, the county seat and banking point.

Source: Laramie City and Albany County Directory, 1924-25   

 

A station on the Overland Route and Union Pacific Railroad between Ozone and Sherman. "From many points in the vicinity of Buford good views may be obtained of the high peaks of the Rocky Mountains far away to the left (south) and of the relatively low but rugged Sherman Mountains, a part of the Laramie Range, to the right. Two prominent points seen to the north are called Twin Mountains and are celebrated as one of the strongholds of the notorious desperado Slade. At Buford is the quarry that has furnished ballast for the Union Pacific from Omaha to Rock Springs, Wyo., a distance of more than 800 miles. The quarry is in the crystalline rock of the Laramie Range, known as the Sherman granite. At Buford this granite has weathered to a depth of 50 feet or more."

Source: Guidebook of the Western United States

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Buford

 

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