Name: Pine Bluffs

 

County: Laramie

 

Authority Name:

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1040409W

Latitude: 411055N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 5052/1540

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place

 

 

Origin of Name:

Named for the stunted pines along the bluffs. 

Source: WPA

 

"taking its name from a few scattered pines over the bluffy country on either side of the valley." 

Source: Brown's Gazetteer

 

The town of Pine Bluffs takes its name from the prominent bluffs of "mortar beds" near by, on which grow a few stunted pine trees. A tree is so rare on these sun-parched plains that these pines seem to have been thought worthy of commemoration in naming the ridge. The bluffs may be seen for a long distance north and south of the road and mark the western edge of the Ogalalla formation.

Source: Guidebook of the Western United States  

 

Other Names: 

 

Alternative Spellings: Pine Bluff, Pinebluff

 

History:

Pine Bluffs Post Office was established as Pine Bluff Post Office on January 13, 1869 with Theodore H. Vail as postmaster. It was discontinued on July 14, 1871 but re-established on February 15, 1875. Its  name was changed to Pinebluff Post Office on August 16, 1894. On July 28, 1919, its name was changed to Pine Bluffs Post Office.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

An incorporated and rapidly growing town in Laramie County on the Union Pacific Railway, 43 miles east of Cheyenne. Stockraising and farming are the leading industries. Has new $8,000 high school, grain elevator with 24,000 bushels capacity. Supply point for many miles around.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

 

Stories:

 

Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Pine Bluffs

 

Newspapers

 

More Information: 

Inventors from Pine Bluffs in the Wyoming Inventors Database

 

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