Name: Stump Creek

 

County: Lincoln

 

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GNIS Entry

 

Longitude:  1105850W

Latitude: 424807N

 

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Elevation: 6024/1836

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Feature Type: Stream

 

Origin of Name:

Named for an early settler who used the salt water of a spring about three miles above the town of Auburn. Stump and his partner hauled their products across the range west to Idaho and Montana ranchers. There are salt mines nearby where blocks of salt are removed for the use of cattle.

Source: WPA

 

Salt of 99.99 per cent purity is deposited along the tributaries of Stump Creek, west of Auburn. The salt fields were once held by Indian tribes, who traveled great distances for the salt, which they used for medicine, for tanning leather, for curing meats, and for flavoring foods. In the late 1860's, Emil Stump and William White established a salt works on Stump Creek, then known as Smoking Creek. The refined salt, hauled by ox team over the Lander Cut-off, was sold in Montana and Idaho mining camps for as much as 60 cents a pound. Hot springs and sulphur deposits are found throughout the area.

Source: Wyoming Guide  

 

Other Names: Smoking Creek  

 

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1:24000 Quadrangle: Grover

 

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