Name: Quealy

 

County: Sweetwater

 

Authority Name: 

 

GNIS Entry 

 

Longitude: 1091321W

Latitude: 413218N 

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation:  6388/1947

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place, Post Office

 

Origin of Name:

Location of the Gunn-Quealy Coal Company.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1922

 

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Other Names: Sweetwater, Sweetwater Queally

 

History:

Quealy Post Office was established on December 8, 1920 with John A. Peterson as postmaster. It was discontinued on September 28, 1962 and its mail then handled by the Rock Springs Post Office.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

A new postoffice in Sweetwater county, 14 miles southeast of Green River the county seat. Rock Springs is the nearest railroad and banking point. Coal mining is the principal industry. Population 150. Altitude 6,261 feet.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1922

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Rock Springs

 

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