Name: Jelm

 

County: Albany

 

Authority Name: 

 

GNIS Entry 

 

Longitude: 1060048W

Latitude: 410328N 

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation:  7444/2269

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place

 

Origin of Name:

Named for Jelm Mountain in the Medicine Bow National Forest.

Source: WPA

 

Derives its name from a tie contractor named Gillom who cut ties for the Union Pacific Railroad in 1860.

Source: Annals 14(3)

 

Alternative Spellings: 

 

Other Names: Cummins City

 

History:

Jelm Post Office was established on May 20, 1898 with Thomas D. Shrock as its first postmaster. It became a rural branch of the Laramie Post Office on April 23, 1965.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

Mining and timber town in Albany county, 30 miles southwest from Laramie. Bramel Mining District. 

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11

 

A postoffice and mining camp on the Big Laramie River, 30 miles southwest of Laramie, the county seat and banking point, and 8 miles northeast of Foxpark on the Colorado, Wyoming and Eastern Railway, the shipping point.

Source: Laramie City and Albany County Directory 

 

Stories:

 

Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Woods Landing

 

Newspapers:

 

More Information:

Laramie Boomerang

   October 23, 1901

 

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