JEFFREY CITY
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NAME: Jeffrey City COUNTY: Fremont ROADS: 2WD GRID: 5 CLIMATE: Hot in the summer, quite cold during the winter time! BEST TIME TO VISIT: Late summer time. |
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There are only a few families loyal to Jeffrey City nowadays. From Casper, Wyoming follow Wyoming Highway 220 West 71 miles to Muddy Gap. Turn right on U.S. 287 West for 23 miles. Jeffrey City is on the left. Its a long and lonely drive, beleive you me! REMAINS: Many derelict buildings. Including an abandoned postoffice,youth hostel and the old mission, still operated by Father Rodriguez. |
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Jeffrey City, Wyoming, unlike 19th-century counterparts its origin was the atomic bomb. Cold War uranium mining built the city in the early 1950s, but Three Mile Island and Chernobyl killed it 30 years later. Sixty miles from the nearest municipality, Jeffrey City now rests virtually forgotten on an isolated two-lane highway. Adjacent to the old Oregon Trial, the town's once-modern duplex apartments and miners' dormitories sit boarded up on weed-choked streets. Nobody wants Wyoming uranium anymore. Thus, almost no one wants Jeffrey City. Several years ago it's entire K-12 school system closed, leaving more vacant buildings, including a huge multi-million dollar Reagan-era gymnasium that now languishes alone on the vast rangeland. Submitted by: Ryan J. Hill I feel Ryan Hill has a few things wrong with his Jeffrey City blurb. I grew up there, for over 10 years between 1990-2005. I attended school in Jeffrey City until the closing of Jr. High and the High school. There is currently still school there for very young children (like kindergarten thru 3rd) because busing them to Rawlins, Riverton or to Lander is too far and unsafe. Also the gym was not a multi-million dollar facitlity but in fact just 1 Million. As for the mission, I never heard of any Father Rodriguez....ever, nor a mission. Dez Coles |
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