Do you know of Powder River ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Powder River. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Powder River.

Our sources for Powder River (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Powder River other than they indicate that Powder River would be found somewhere in Johnson County, Wyoming.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1879 and closed  in 1895.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Powder River ...

We found one communities that share the name Powder River.

There is one other community in Wyoming which is also named Powder River.

Beyond Wyoming.

• Communities Located In Wyoming ...
  • Natrona County
    • Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Powder River [Natrona County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Powder River ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Powder River:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<1>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Powder River - Services available: had a Post Office, Express Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Johnson County ...

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As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Johnson County.