Name: Heart Mountain

 

County: Park

 

Authority Name: Heart Mountain (Wyo.)

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1090733W

Latitude: 444000N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 7831/2387

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Summit

 

Origin of Name:

Mountain with an elevation of about 8,123 feet, about 10 miles north-northwest of Cody.

Source: Decisions, 1959

 

Name comes from the Crow Indians, because it struck up sharply like a human or animal heart. There is a legend about it. Sometimes spelled “Hart” but is spelled with an “e” on the Lewis and Clark map.

Source: WPA

 

Named for an early settler who located and later abandoned a homestead on the north side of the mountain.

Source: WPA 

 

Other Names: Heart Peak

 

Alternative Spellings: Hart Mountain

 

History:

 

Stories:

 

Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Eaglenest Basin

 

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More Information: 

 

Pictures:

View north across Shoshone River at Cody, showing four gravel-capped cut terraces. Heart Mountain in left background.

Park County, Wyoming. June 15, 1922.

Photograph by W. C. Alden

Courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey Photographic Library