Wild Horse, Colorado Explained

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.

Geography

Wild Horse is located at 38.8256°N -103.0117°W (38.825533,-103.011761).

Popular culture

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: US Board on Geographic Names. 2008-01-31. United States Geological Survey. 2007-10-25.
  2. Book: Dawson, John Frank. Place names in Colorado: why 700 communities were so named, 150 of Spanish or Indian origin. 1954. The J. Frank Dawson Publishing Co.. Denver, CO. 52.
  3. Web site: Post offices . Jim Forte Postal History . 11 July 2016.
  4. Web site: January 3, 2007 . ZIP Code Lookup. . United States Postal Service . January 3, 2007.
  5. Web site: Netflix's "Space Force," set in Colorado, is too impolitical for the times and, frankly, not funny. 29 May 2020.