Name: Lysite

 

County: Fremont

 

Authority Name:

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1074125W

Latitude: 431605N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 5276/1608

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place

 

Origin of Name:

Named for Lysite Mountain, which received its name from Jim Lysite, a prospector and trapper who was killed by Indians near the site of his camp in 1876. 

Source: WPA

 

Named for Jim Lysite or Lysaght, prospector and miner who was killed by Indians in the early seventies near Lysite Mountain.

Source: Annals 14(3)

 

Other Names: Lysaght

 

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History:

Lysite Post Office was established in March, 1914.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

New and prosperous town on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railway in Fremont County, 80 miles west of Capser, and 55 miles miles southwest of Thermopolis; 80 miles northeast of Lander, the county seat. Principal industries cattle and sheep growing, with some ranching. Population 124. Altitude 5,000 feet.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1922

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Lysite

 

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