Daniel

Name: Daniel

 

County: Sublette

 

Authority Name: Daniel (Wyo.)

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1100416W

Latitude: 425152N 

 

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Elevation: 7195/2193

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place

 

Origin of Name:

Located where Horse Creek empties into the Green River. Nearby is the site of the Green River rendezvous of the fur era, and of the Father DeSmet monument, where the first Catholic mass in the Rockies was delivered in 1840. Named for the one of the earliest settlers, a man named Daniel.

Source: WPA

 

Named for an early setter by the name of Daniel. 

Source: Annals 14(3)  

 

Named for and by T. P. Daniel when the post office was located at his store on the present site in 1904.

Source: Annals 15 (1)

 

Daniel Post Office was established in February, 1900 with Thomas P. Daniel as its first postmaster.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

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History:

Daniel Post Office was established in February, 1900.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

Small postoffice in Uinta County, 100 miles north from Kemmerer. Stock raising the principal industry. 

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Daniel

 

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