Tie Siding is a tiny unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...

 in far southeastern Albany County, 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...

, United States

United States

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, approximately eight miles north of the Colorado

Colorado

Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...

 border. It was strategically located to service the expansion of railroad systems in the West from the late 1860s to early 1900s. Tie Siding interacted with such nearby communities as Virginia Dale

Virginia Dale, Colorado

Virginia Dale is a tiny unincorporated town located in northwestern Larimer County, Colorado, United States. Virginia Dale is situated in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains on U.S. Highway 287, approximately 45 mi northwest of Ft. Collins and approximately 4 mi south of the Wyoming...

, LaPorte

Laporte, Colorado

Laporte is a census-designated place in Larimer County, Colorado, United States. The population was 2,691 at the 2000 census...

 and Pingree Park

Pingree Park, Colorado

Pingree Park, Colorado, is currently the mountain campus for Fort Collins, Colorado, based Colorado State University. Pingree Park is situated in the mountains of the Mummy Range at It is located northwest of the city of Fort Collins, up Highway 14 in the Poudre Canyon and then another on the...

. At an elevation of 7,694 ft. and located at latitude

Latitude

In geography, the latitude of a location on the Earth is the angular distance of that location south or north of the Equator. The latitude is an angle, and is usually measured in degrees . The equator has a latitude of 0°, the North pole has a latitude of 90° north , and the South pole has a...

 41.080N and longitude

Longitude

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 -105.506W, Tie Siding consists today of only a combination U.S. Post Office

United States Postal Service

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/Flea Market

Flea market

A flea market or swap meet is a type of bazaar where inexpensive or secondhand goods are sold or bartered. It may be indoors, such as in a warehouse or school gymnasium; or it may be outdoors, such as in a field or under a tent...

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