TOWNS OF CARBON COUNTY

ALLEN Railroad station named after William Allen	ARLINGTON First named Rockdale in 1860 by Joe Bush.	AURORA Found on 1895 Atlas	BATTLE 1898 mining town and post office near top of the Sierra Madres.	BAGGS On Little Snake Rivern, first called Dixon after Bob Dixon. Later named Baggs for George and Maggie Baggs.
BELL Named after Albert H. Bell	BENNETT Found on 1895 Atlas	BENTON Overland stage stop, named after Thomas H. Benton	BRIDGER PASS Overland stage stop 1862-68, pass named after Jim Bridger who discovered the pass in 1862. Overland route was re-routed here	BROWNSVILLE 1868 railroad tent town
CALVIN 1870 railroad station, named after it's agent	CARBON 1868-1902 mining and railroad town	CENTENNIAL Found on 1895 Atlas	COLLINS Found on 1895 Atlas	COMO 1870 railroad station
COPPERTON Discontinued post office and supply camp	CORLETTS Found on 1895 Atlas	COW CREEK Discontinued post office and railroad station	CROOK'S CREEK STATION	DAD Discontinued post office and stage station
DALEY'S RANCH Found on 1906 map west of Rawlins	DANA Mining tent camp, now abandoned	DAVIS SIDING Railroad siding on Capt Lou Davis ranch	DAY SIDING Railroad siding on Robert Day ranch	DEXTERVILLE Stage stop between Rawlins and Dillon on Dexter ranch
DIFFICULTY Small settlement on Difficulty Creek, now abandoned	DILLON Mining town named after Malachi W. Dillon	DIXON See Baggs	DOUGLAS Found on 1895 Atlas	DOWNINGTON Found on 1906 map southeast of Encampment
DUCK LAKE STAGE STATION Stage and emigrant stop in 1860	EDSON Railroad siding named after J.A. Edson, dispatcher	ELK MOUNTAIN Post office and stage station near Elk Mountain	ELMO Small town started by Finlanders, named after a man named Elmo who was killed by Indians	ELWOOD Transfer station near Encampment
ENCAMPMENT 1898 mining town, now has a museum center	FERRIS Found on 1895 Atlas	FRAEB'S POST Trading post named after Henry Fraeb who was killed in 1841 by Indians, along with four other men.	FRENCH Found on 1895 Atlas	FT. FRED STEELE 1868 U.S. Army Post - see U.S. Army Frontier Posts in Wyoming
FT. HALLACK 1862 U.S. Army Post - see U.S. Army Frontier Posts in Wyoming	GRENVILLE Railroad station, after Gen. Grenville Dodge. Renamed Parco	HADSELL Railroad station in 1880, named after Frank A. Hadsell	HALF WAY STATION Also called Hog Park Stage Station and Olson's Station	HAMILTONS Found on 1895 Atlas
HANNA 1886 stage station and mining town, named after Mark A. Hanna	HATTON Found on 1895 Atlas	HAYS Found on 1895 Atlas	KNOBS Found on 1906 map west of Rawlins	KYLE Also known as Kyle Oil Camp, after an oilman who drilled the first oil well here
		LAKOTA Oil camp east of Benton	LAMONT town north of Rawlins, named after James Lamont	LEO Found on 1895 Atlas
LOREY Discontinued post office and stage stop between Rawlins and Lander	MCFADDEN First named Ohio City, then McFayden - railroad station and oil camp	MEAD Discontinued post office named for Alice L. Mead	MEADS Railroad station between Saratoga and Encampment	MEDICINE BOW Stage station and home of the famous hotel, The Virginian.
MILLERS Found on 1895 Atlas	MISER Found on 1888 map near border between Carbon and Albany Counties	O'NEILL Found on 1895 Atlas	PARCO Later renamed Sinclair	PEDRO Discontinued post office
PERCY Railroad station named after Percy T. Browne	PERDO Discontinued post office	PINE GROVE STAGE STATION 1865 stage station	POLLOCK WOODS Found on 1895 Atlas	POOR Discontinued post office named after Old Billy Poor
PYNCHEON Found on 1895 Atlas	RAMBLER Mining and trucking town, now vanished	RAMSEY Found on 1895 Atlas	RANKIN Found on 1895 Atlas	RAWLINS Early frontier post - see U.S. Army Frontier Posts, and now county seat of Carbon County
RINER Found on 1895 Atlas	RIVERSIDE First known as Doggett as a post office and way station, it was renamed Riverside in 1890	ROCK Found on 1895 Atlas	ROCKDALE See Arlington	RYANS Found on 1895 Atlas
SAGE CREEK STAGE STATION Built in 1861 on Sage Creek	SARATOGA 1878 town established by Fenimore Chatterton, post trade at Ft. Steele. Named after Saratoga Hot Springs in NY. Still a popular hot springs town.	SAVERY Small town named after Savery Creek	SEMINOE Found on 1895 Atlas	SEPARATION Railroad station named for Separation Flats
SIMPSON Found on 1895 Atlas	SINCLAIR Originally the town of Parco, renamed Sinclair when Sinclair Oil company bought it in 1934	SLATER Discontinued post office on Rhoda Creek, also called Slater Creek	SODA LAKES Found on 1895 Atlas	SOLON Found on 1895 Atlas
STAGER Overland stage station	SULPHUR SPRINGS 1863 stage station	SWAN Discontinued post office named after William Franklin Swan, rancher	TAGGART MEADOWS Early freight stop named after Pete Taggart	TEN MILE Small town ten miles from the junction of highwasy 12, 130 and 230
THREETOWN Railroad station in the Hanna mining district	TULLIS Discontinued post office and railroad station, named after a retired postal inspector	VICTORIA 1890 stopping station on the trail from West Fork	WALCOTT JUNCTION Railroad town named after a conductor	WARM SPRINGS Found on 1895 Atlas Across river from Saratoga. Later became part of Saratoga.
WEED Found on 1895 Atlas	WHISKEY GAP Stage station on the Overland Trail	WIDDOWFIELD 1878 town named for Robert Widdowfield