Gebo, Wyoming
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Gebo is a ghost town
located in Hot Springs County in the U.S. state
of Wyoming
. It is located about 11 miles (17.7 km) north of Thermopolis
. The town was established as a coal
mining camp in 1907 alongside the nearby camps of Crosby and Kirby
. It was named after Samuel Gebo
who established the Owl Creek Coal Company and the first mine in the area. Mining remained active until 1938. At its height, over 2000 people lived in the area, mostly miners and their families, making Gebo briefly the largest town in the county. The remains of the town were bulldozed in 1971, though some buildings and the cemetery remain.
Ghost town
A ghost town is an abandoned town or city. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as floods, government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, or nuclear disasters...
located in Hot Springs County in the U.S. state
U.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...
of Wyoming
Wyoming
Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High...
. It is located about 11 miles (17.7 km) north of Thermopolis
Thermopolis, Wyoming
Thermopolis is the largest town in, and the county seat of Hot Springs County, Wyoming, United States. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 3,172....
. The town was established as a coal
Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...
mining camp in 1907 alongside the nearby camps of Crosby and Kirby
Kirby, Wyoming
Kirby is a town in Hot Springs County, Wyoming, United States. The population was 57 at the 2000 census. The town was home to a coal mining camp in the early 1900s along with the nearby camps of Crosby and Gebo.-Geography:...
. It was named after Samuel Gebo
Samuel Gebo
Samuel Wilford Gebo was an American entrepreneur influential in the early development of the U.S. state of Montana...
who established the Owl Creek Coal Company and the first mine in the area. Mining remained active until 1938. At its height, over 2000 people lived in the area, mostly miners and their families, making Gebo briefly the largest town in the county. The remains of the town were bulldozed in 1971, though some buildings and the cemetery remain.