Name: Red Buttes

 

County: Albany

 

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GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1053541W

Latitude: 411057N

 

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Elevation: 7323/2232

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place

 

Origin of Name:

From a point near Hermosa the road has two lines to Laramie. The westbound trains run by way of Red Buttes, and the eastbound trains come from Laramie over an easier grade by way of Forelle and Colores. Red Buttes is little more than a section house and takes its name from the natural monuments or buttes of red sandstone that are numerous in this vicinity.

Source: Guidebook of the Western United States

 

A station on the Union Pacific Railroad. "Butte, the definition of which signifies an isolated peak, an abrupt elevation of land too high to be called a hill or ridge and not high enough to be called a mountain. These buttes are from seventy-five to one hundred feet high and composed of rock and red gravelly soil, if soil it may be called."

Source: Brown's Gazetteer

 

District and village, Albany County, Wyo. (Not Leah)

Source: Decisions, 1890-1932 

 

Other Names: Leah

 

Alternative Spellings: Redbuttes

 

History:

Red Buttes Post Office was estanblished on September 2, 1872 with E.B. McNairn as its postmaster. It was discontinued on July 2, 1874 but re-established on May 5, 1876. It was discontinued again on July 2, 1879. Redbuttes Post Office was established as Leah Post Office on December 13, 1883. Its name was changed to Redbuttes Post Office on February 8, 1896. It was discontinued on June 30, 1902 and its mail then handled by the Laramie Post Office.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

Hermosa station on the Union Pacific Railway, 10 miles south of Laramie.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

 

A station on the Union Pacific Railway, 9 miles east of Laramie.

Source: Laramie City and Albany County Directory, 1924

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Red Buttes 

 

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