Name: Saint Stephens

 

County: Fremont

 

Authority Name:

 

GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1082459W

Latitude: 425902N

 

Legal Description:

 

Elevation: 4944/1507

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place, Post Office

 

Origin of Name:

Established in 1884 and named for Saint Stephen, a saint in the Roman Catholic Church by Reverend John Jutz, SJ, a Jesuit missionary. The mission was located at what was once a camping place of Arapaho Indians and known to them as “Camp of Black Coal.”  Black Coal was the Chief at the time the mission was established.  

Source: WPA

 

Other Names: Camp of Black Coal

 

Alternative Spellings: St. Stephens

 

History:

Saint Stephens Post Office was established on October 9, 1888 with Franc X Kuppers as postmaster.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

Postoffice and Mission for the Arapahoe Indians on the Wind River Reservation in Fremont County, 23 miles northeast from Lander.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1910-11 

 

Postoffice and mission headquarters for the Arapahoe Indians on Wind River Reservation, in Fremont County. It is located 6 miles north of Riverton, and 25 miles northeast of Lander. Population 250. Altitude 4,600 feet.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1922

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Arapahoe

 

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