Name: Greybull

 

County: Big Horn

 

Authority Name: Greybull (Wyo.)

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1080322W

Latitude: 442921N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 3793/1156

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place

 

Origin of Name:

On a cliff overhanging the river near the town of Greybull in a pictograph is pictured a buffalo with an arrow through his body. With this picture goes the story that an old gray bull which ranged up and down the river chased by the Indians was finally killed by driving it over the edge of this bluff into the river below. Another story goes that an old gray buffalo bull hung along this river for years and that every buffalo hunter in the country tried to kill him without success and that these hunters referred to the river as the Greybull.

Source: WPA

 

Named after the Greybull River which, legend relates, was named for a strangely colored gray buffalo bull that ranged up and down the river in defiance of hunters who sought to kill him. Indian pictographs on a cliff overhanging the river represent a buffalo bull with an arrow through his body.

Source: Annals 14(3)  

 

Town, Big Horn County, Wyo.

Source: Decisions, 1890-1932

 

Other Names: Coburn

 

Alternative Spellings: Grey Bull, Graybull, Gray Bull

 

History:

Greybull Post Office was originally established as Coburn Post Office on September 7, 1892 with Edwin M Coburn as its postmaster. It was discontinued on June 22, 1899 but re-established on December 16, 1901. Its name was changed to Greybull on March 7, 1907 with Roy Shaver as its postmaster.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

A new and growing town in Big Horn County on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, surrounded by a good farming and fruit raising country. Large deposits of coal, gypsum, lime and building stone. Greybull has a large supply of natural gass for lighting and heating purposes and immense reservoirs of crude oil are now being developed which tests show to be finest and purest in the world. Greybull has recently been designated a division point on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and 28 miles of side tracks, a 40-stall round house and large machine and repair shops are now being built by the railroad.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

 

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Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Greybull South

 

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