page_title: Spotted Horse, Wyoming
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Spotted Horse, Wyoming / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Scanned image of a post card postmarked 1960, of the store at Spotted Horse, Wyoming, USA Français&#160;: Carte postale cachet de la poste 1960, du magasin à Spotted Horse, Wyoming, Etats-Unis
context_page_description: Spotted Horse is an unincorporated community located in Campbell County, Wyoming, United States. Its current population is two. The town is on U.S. Route 14/16, at the head of Spotted Horse Creek, a tributary of the Powder River. The undeveloped Spotted Horse coalfield is north of the townsite.
  The town was named after a Native American. Its post office closed in 1964.
context_section_description: The Astorian expedition camped near the future Spotted Horse townsite in 1811.
  A small community existed at the location in the 19th century. By about 1900 a general store and post office was established by Solon and George Walker. The present bar was established as a store and gas station in the early 1920s by A.L. Pringle. A school was established in the 1920s. A dance hall was destroyed in a 1944 tornado.
caption: The Spotted Horse store circa 1960
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