Name: Cokeville

 

County: Lincoln

 

Authority Name: Cokeville (Wyo.)

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1105719W

Latitude: 420457N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 6194/1888

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place

 

Origin of Name:

Cokeville was once a trading post for trappers and Indians. The first white settler was John Bourns who came in 1874. Originally called “Smith’s Fork”, the name was changed to Cokeville because of the large deposits of coking coal nearby.

Source: WPA

 

Other Names: Smiths Fork, Smith's Fork

 

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History:

Cokeville Post Office was established in October, 1877.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

A town on the Oregon Short Line Railroad in Uinta County, 42 miles northwest from Kemmerer. Pleasantly located at the junction of Bear River and Smith's fork, near the Sublette Mountain Range and Rocky Point Mountain. Splendid hunting and fishing. Coal is found in abundance here, and there are some undeveloped gold and silver properties. Cokeville is an extensive distributing and shipping point for stockmen.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

 

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Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Cokeville

 

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