Name: Dixon

 

County: Carbon

 

Authority Name:

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1073208W

Latitude: 410200N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 6365/1940

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place, Post Office

 

Origin of Name:

Dixon Post Office was established in June, 1874 with Robert Dixon as its first postmaster.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

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History:

Dixon Post Office was established on June 24, 1874 with Robert Dixon as postmaster. It was discontinued on November 28, 1879 but re-established on January 19, 1881.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

A farming and stock growing town in the southwestern part of Carbon County, 75 miles south of Rawlins, the county seat, and 58 miles from Wamsutter, the nearest railway point. daily stages and mails to Rawlins. Good churches and schools.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

 

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Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Dixon

 

Newspapers:

 

More Information: 

Inventors from Dixon in the Wyoming Inventors Database

 

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