Name: Dwyer

 

County: Platte

 

Authority Name:

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1045722W

Latitude: 421432N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 4839/1475

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place

 

Origin of Name:

J. E. Dwyer was superintendent of the Colorado and Southern Railroad on which Dwyer was a station.

Source: Trenholm, Footprints   

 

Other Names: Buck Horn, Buckhorn, Buckhorn Flats

 

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History:

Dwyer Post Office was established in March, 1911. It became a rural branch of the Wheatland Post Office in May, 1973.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

Postoffice in Platte County, on the Colorado and Southern Railway, 18 miles north of Wheatland, the county seat and nearest banking point. Farming is the principal industry. Population 30. Altitude 4,600 feet.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1922

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Dwyer

 

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