Name: Granger

 

County: Sweetwater

 

Authority Name: Granger (Wyo.)

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1095808W

Latitude: 413537N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 6273/1912

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place 

 

Origin of Name:

On July 6, 1847, Brigham Young and party camped on the present site of the town while on their way

to Salt Lake. The Pony Express, old Oregon Trail, and Overland Stage routes wound their way through this district. The old Granger Stage and Pony Express station is still intact. It is now a railroad junction. In early days it was called “South Bend” because of the bend in the Ham’s Fork River. May have been named for the stepfather of William Crookston. The spring nearby was originally called Granger Spring, from which the town takes its name. 

Source: WPA

 

Granger Post Office was established in February, 1869 with Lafayette Granger as its first postmaster.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

Other Names: South Bend

 

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History:

Granger Post Office was established in February, 1869 and discontinued in June, 1873. It was re-established in August, 1876.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

Small town in the eastern part of Sweetwater County, 30 miles west from Green River. The junction point of the Union Pacific and Oregon Short Line railroads. Good school building.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

 

Small town in the eastern part of Sweetwater County, 30 miles west from Green River. The junction point of the Union Pacific and Oregon Short Line Railroads. Arrangements are now being made to develop the Green River Project which will irrigate 158,000 acres of find land located near the U.P.R.R., all of which is tributary to Granger. Good school building. Population 100. Altitude 6,279.

 

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1922

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Granger

 

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