Wild Horse, Colorado | |
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Location in Cheyenne County and the state of Colorado | |
Coordinates: 38°49′32″N 103°00′42″W / 38.82556°N 103.01167°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Colorado |
County | Cheyenne County |
Elevation | 4,475 ft (1,364 m) |
Time zone | UTC-7 (MST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-6 (MDT) |
ZIP code[2] | 80862 |
Area code | 719 |
GNIS feature ID | 0195193 |
Wild Horse is an unincorporated village in Cheyenne County, Colorado, United States. The community takes its name from Wild Horse Creek,[3] 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.[4] and currently services ZIP Code 80862.[2] There is also a one-room school house, no longer in use, and a cluster of older small homes.