Name: Piedmont

 

County: Uinta

 

Authority Name: 

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1103739W

Latitude: 411258N 

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 7067/2154

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place

 

Origin of Name:

The station was first called Byrne after Moses Byrne who settled at Piedmont in 1867, but it was deemed advisable to change the name, because of its similarity to Bryan. Piedmont was named after Piedmont, Italy of which natives were the sisters, Mrs. Byrne and Mrs. James Guild. Piedmont in the early days of the Union Pacific was a lively little town where stores, saloons, and gambling rooms thrived, and money was plentiful with the denizens and its hundreds of woodchoppers, lumber and timber men, and scores of coal burners. Today there remain but few of the log houses, while the big beehive shaped charcoal kilns are all that remain to point to the past flush times of the town. When charcoal gave way to coke in smelting furnaces, wood became the thing of the past for use in locomotives and the lumber market had its bottom knocked out by importations of lumber from Oregon, Washington, and California; there was nothing left in business in these lines and citizens turned their attention to railroad ties and mine props. 

Source: WPA

 

Means "foot of the mountains" and was taken from the Italian language.

Source: Annals 15(1)

 

Other Names: Byrne

 

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History:

Piedmont Post Office was established in June, 1869 and discontinued in May, 1967 after which its mail was handled by the Fort Bridger Post Office.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

A small town in Uinta County, 24 miles east from Evanston and 51 miles southwest from Granger.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11   

 

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Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Piedmont Reservoir

 

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Source: Wyoming State Archives