Name: Shawnee

 

County: Converse

 

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GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1050035W

Latitude: 424452N

 

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Elevation: 5059/1542

(ft/m)

 

Feature Type: Populated Place

 

Origin of Name: 

Shawnee, Converse County, Wyoming, was named from the nearby Shawnee Creek and that was named from the Indian tribe. The name means "Southerners" and was given to the tribe because they had emigrated from the Savannah River in Georgia. 

 

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History:

Shawnee Post Office was established on February 7, 1887 with Frank S. Macomber as postmaster It was discontinued on July 9, 1888 but re-established on February 28, 1911.

Source: Wyoming Post Offices

 

Shawnee is near producing coal mines, and drilling is carried onin the Shawnee Oil Field northwest of town.

Source: Wyoming Guide

 

Postoffice in Converse County on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, 26 miles east of Douglas, the county seat. Farming is the principal industry. Population 125. Altitude 5,000 feet.

Source: Wyoming State Business Directory, 1922

 

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Maps:

1:24000 Quadrangle: Shawnee

 

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Highway sign for Shawnee

Photograph by Lesley Boughton   March 2008