Name: Manville

 

County: Niobrara

 

Authority Name: Manville (Wyo.)

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1043704W

Latitude: 424645N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 5253/1601

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place

 

Origin of Name:

Manville, Wyoming is located about 9 miles west of Lusk, Wyoming. The town was named for H. S. Manville of Milwaukee, Wisconsin who settled in the area in 1879. After the railroad came in 1886 the town started to boom. Addison Spaugh was asked to name the town and so he named it after his best friend.    

Source: WPA

 

Named for H. S. Manville, the manager of the Converse Cattle Company.

Source: Annals 14(3)

 

Manville, Converse County, Wyoming was named for H. S. Manville, the manager of the Converse Cattle Company and afterwards and yet (1907) a prominent citizen of California.

Source: Stennett 

 

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History:

Manville Post Office was established in February, 1887.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

A small town in Converse County, on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, 9 miles west from Lusk. Stockraising and woolgrowing the leading industries. Good sheep and wool shipping point.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

 

An incorporated town in Niobrara County, on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, 28 miles west of the Nebraska line and 8 miles from Lusk, the county seat. Farming, stock raising and mining are the leading industries. Potatoes yield from 75 to 200 bushels per acre; rye from 10 to 35 bushels per acre, wheat from 10 to 40 bushels per acre and oats from 15 to 75 bushels. A large new oil field is being developed just north of Manville, 17 miles, known as the Lance Creek and Buck Creek Oil Fields. There are now many producing wells and over 100 rigs in operation.

 

It has an up-to-the-minute water works costing $21,000.00, electric light and power plant, and a sewer system. It is a town whose handsome residences and cement sidewalks would do credit to towns of much great population. Population 500. Altitude 5,000 feet.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1922

 

Stories:

 

Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Manville

 

Newspapers

 

More Information: 

Manville, Wyoming

Niobrara County Library Historical Archives

 

Pictures:

 

 

 

Highway sign for Manville, Population 97 and Elevation 5245

Photograph by Lesley Boughton                  March 2008