Name: Nefsy     

 

County: Weston

 

Authority Name: 

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude: 1042519W

Latitude: 435851N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 4298/1310

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Locale, Post Office

 

Origin of Name:

In 1910 John Nefsy discovered the oil seep on Poison Creek near the quarter corner between secs. 17 and 18, T. 46 N., R. 63 W., and in 1913 he and others located it as an oil claim. The same year he and his brothers bought the Nefsy town site, on which much of the town of Osage is located.

Source: Collier

 

Other Names: Apostol, Osage

 

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History:

Nefsy Post Office was established as Apostol Post Office on April 18, 1919 with John K. Higgins as its postmaster. Its name was changed to Nefsy on May 5, 1920 with John K. Higgins continuing as postmaster. On November 29, 1920, its name was changed to Osage with Ennis B. Pointer as its postmaster.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

Osage is divided by the old highway 16 which used to run through town from Newcastle to Upton and when I lived in Osage you couldn't bypass Osage, you had to drive through town. Nefsy Av is the official 'in-town' name for highway 16 as it runs through town. I lived on Nefsy Av but we never actually called it that as there were NO street signs in Osage then. Most of Osage was on the West side of Nefsy Av and that was the original Nefsy township.

Source: Bobbi Thorpe, personal communication

 

Stories: 

 

Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Osage

 

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From The News Letter

Newcastle, Wyoming

April 8, 1920