Name: Hecla

 

County: Laramie

 

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Longitude: 1051024W

Latitude: 410927N 

 

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Elevation:  6758/2060

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Feature Type: Populated Place

 

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History:

Hecla Post Office was established in July, 1886 as Converse Post Office. It was changed to Hecla in October, 1888 and discontinued in October, 1929. Mail was then handled by Granite Canon.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices 

 

Hecla ... a mining district on Middle Crow Creek, which has been worked at intervals since the late 1880's. Men still prospect here for copper, silver, and gold. Ruins of a brick kiln, a copper smelter, log cabins, and adobe houses are scattered near ranch buildings and corrals, surrounded by gnarled, nearly dead apple trees.

Source: Wyoming Guide

 

Country postoffice in Laramie County, 6 miles north from Granite Canon on the Union Pacific Railway, the nearest railroad point. Mining and stockraising the principal industries.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Hecla

 

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