Welcome to Shirley ...

So far, we found very little information about Shirley. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Shirley to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Shirley, please Contact Us.

Shirley would have been located within present day Carbon County<2>.

The location of Shirley has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3>

While we don't have a date for the founding of Shirley, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1890.

While the community is gone, the present day location for Shirley is 7,180 feet [2,188 m] above sea level.<4> In other words, the altitude of Shirley is about 1¼ mile [or ~2¼ km] above sea level.

Time Zone: The area where Shirley was located is in the Mountain Time Zone (MST/MDT) and observes daylight saving time

The location where Shirley once stood is in the (307) area code.

Communities Also Named Shirley ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 38 communities that are also named Shirley - they are located in Alabama (2), Arkansas, British Columbia, California (2), Colorado (3), Illinois (2), Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts (2), Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York (2), Ontario (3), Pennsylvania (2), South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Shirley.

Communities near Shirley ...

We have created a list of 4 communities that are near Shirley.

• Elmo
  (21 miles [33.8 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Elmo
  • Elmo is located in Carbon County
• Hanna
  (22 miles [35.4 km] to the south)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Hanna
  • Hanna is located in Carbon County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 757 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Hanna <5>
• Medicine Bow
  (24 miles [38.6 km] to the southeast)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Medicine Bow
  • Medicine Bow is located in Carbon County
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 257 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Medicine Bow <5>
• Alcova
  (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alcova
  • Alcova is located in Natrona County
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Alcova <5>

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We're compiling a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Shirley. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Shirley.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Shirley. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Shirley.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Shirley. See our Newspapers Page for Shirley.

Adding Shirley to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Shirley in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Shirley was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Shirley post office opened in 1890.

We also found Shirley on a map titled Map of the Lincoln Highway (1924).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Shirley.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of Wyoming: https://www.wyo.gov/