Wild Horse, Colorado facts for kids
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Wild Horse, Colorado
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Wild Horse in June 2007 with U.S. Highway 40/287 running through it.
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 Wild Horse, Colorado
Location in Colorado
Wild Horse, Colorado
Location in the United States
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| Country |  United States |
| State |  Colorado |
| County | Cheyenne County |
| Elevation | 4,475 ft (1,364 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-7 (MST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-6 (MDT) |
| ZIP code |
80862
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| Area code(s) | 719 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0195193 |
Wild Horse is an unincorporated village in Cheyenne County, Colorado, United States. The community takes its name from Wild Horse Creek, and began in 1869 as a cavalry outpost, which soon became a railway station and had expanded to a town by the mid-1870s. After a peak of population and business activities in the early 1900s, the town began dwindling by 1917, when most of it burned down in a great fire. The town rebuilt, but never at the population or business-service centralization level of its earlier years, and by the 1930s, had begun to dwindle further.
There is still a post office at Wild Horse, which has been in operation since 1904. and currently services ZIP Code 80862. There is also a one-room school house, no longer in use, and a cluster of older small homes.
Geography
Wild Horse is located at 38°49′32″N 103°00′42″W / 38.82556°N 103.01167°W (38.825533,-103.011761).
