Name: Cloverly

 

County: Big Horn

 

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Cloverly Post Office was established on August 8, 1898 with Wolfgang R. Copman as its first postmaster. It was discontinued on October 31, 1929 and its mail then handled by Shell Post Office.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

Small postoffice in Big Horn County, 40 miles northeast from Basin. Stockraising the leading industry.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

 

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Cloverly is a geological formation that is named after Cloverly, Wyoming.

"Overlying the Morrison shales there is a thin bed of sandstone which, from its stratigraphie relations and character, is believed to represent the Lakota of the Black hills, overlain by and merging into clays resembling the Fuson formation. Owing, however, to the lack of any definite evidence as to the equivalency of these beds, and especially in the consideration of the apparent absence of deposits representing the Dakota sandstone above the clay, it has been thought best to give this series a separate designation. Accordingly " Cloverly " is proposed, a name derived from a postoffice on the eastern side of the Bighorn basin."

From N. HDarton, "Comparison of the stratigraphy of the Black Hills, Bighorn Mountains and Rocky Mountain Front Range" in Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, Volume 15, p. 398.

 

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