Official Name: | Wild Horse, Colorado |
Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
Pushpin Map: | Colorado#USA |
Pushpin Label Position: | none |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Cheyenne County and the state of Colorado |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Cheyenne County |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Timezone: | MST |
Utc Offset: | -7 |
Timezone Dst: | MDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -6 |
Coordinates: | 38.8256°N -103.0117°W |
Elevation Footnotes: | [1] |
Elevation M: | 1364 |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 80862 |
Area Code: | 719 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 0195193 |
Wild Horse is an unincorporated village in Cheyenne County, Colorado, United States. The community takes its name from Wild Horse Creek,[2] and began in 1869 as a cavalry outpost, which soon became a railway station and had expanded to a town by the mid-1870s. After a peak of population and business activities in the early 1900s, the town began dwindling by 1917, when most of it burned down in a great fire. The town rebuilt, but never at the population or business-service centralization level of its earlier years, and by the 1930s, had begun to dwindle further.
There is still a post office at Wild Horse, which has been in operation since 1904.[3] and currently services ZIP Code 80862.[4] There is also a one-room school house, no longer in use, and a cluster of older small homes.
Wild Horse is located at 38.8256°N -103.0117°W (38.825533,-103.011761).
Wild Horse is the home of the United States Space Force in the Netflix comedy series Space Force, although the series was not actually filmed in the village.[5]