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Fort Caspar was a military post of the United States Army in present-day Wyoming, named after 2nd Lieutenant Caspar Collins, a U.S. Army officer who was killed in the 1865 Battle of the Platte Bridge Station against the Lakota and Cheyenne.
Casper was established east of the former site of Fort Caspar, in an area that attracted European settlers during the mid-19th century mass migration of land seekers along the Oregon, California, and Mormon trails, [8] where several nearby ferries offered passage across the North Platte River in the early 1840s. In 1859, Louis Guinard built a ...
Casper, Wyoming; Central Wyoming Regional Airport ... Fort Laramie National Historic Site; ... Relief location map of Wyoming, USA Geographic limits of the map: N: 45 ...
Casper was established in 1888 east of the former site of Fort Caspar, which was built about 1859 during the mass migration along the Oregon, California, Mormon and Bozeman trails. [14] Near what is now Casper was the location of several ferries that offered passage across the North Platte River during the summer "Trail season" starting about 1847.
National Register of Historic Places listings in Natrona County, Wyoming; Natrona, Wyoming; Natrona County, Wyoming; Natrona County High School; Pathfinder Dam; Powder River, Wyoming; Red Butte, Wyoming; Rialto Theater (Casper, Wyoming) Roosevelt School (Casper, Wyoming) Teapot Rock; Tom Sun Ranch; Townsend Hotel (Casper, Wyoming) Vista West ...
Wyoming Highway 258 begins its western end at US 20 Business/US 26 Business (Yellowstone Highway) in Mills and from there travels counter-clockwise around Casper. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] WYO 258 heads south and crosses the North Platte River before intersecting W. 13th Street, which also provides access to Fort Caspar .
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Natrona County is a county in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 79,955, [1] making it the second-most populous county in Wyoming. Its county seat is Casper. [2] Natrona County comprises the Casper, WY Metropolitan Statistical Area. In 2010, the center of population of Wyoming was in Natrona ...