Name: Egbert

County: Laramie

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GNIS Entry

Longitude:  1041525W

Latitude: 411011N

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Elevation: 5292/1613

(ft/m)

Feature Type: Populated Place

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History:

Egbert Post Office was established in January, 1875, discontinued in July, 1876, re-established in January, 1880, discontinued again in May, 1880, re-established in in January, 1882 and discontinued for a final time in December, 1966. Its mail was then handled by the Burns Post Office.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

Postoffice in Laramie County and station on Union Pacific Railway, 36 miles east of Cheyenne and 15 miles west of the Nebraska line. Stockraising and farming the leading industries. 

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

Station on the Overland Route and Union Pacific Railroad between Tracy and Burns.

Source: Guidebook of the Western United States  

Egbert -Eleven miles from Pine Bluffs, is an unimportant station, where cars seldom stop. Near this point we leave Lodge Pole Creek. From this point to the source of the stream in the Black Hills, about 40 miles away, the valley presents the same general appearance until it reaches the base of the mountains. Bear, deer and wolves abound in the country around the source of the stream, and herds of antelope are scattered over the valley. At one time beavers were plenty in the creek, and a few of these interesting animals are still to be found in the lower waters of the stream, near to its junction with the Platte. This valley was once a favorite hunting-ground of the Sioux and Cheyennes, who long resisted the attempts to remove them to the reservation to the northward.

Source: Crofutt, Trans-continental  

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Burns

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Inventors from Egbert in the Wyoming Inventors Database

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