McKinnon, Wyoming

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McKinnon
McKinnon, Wyoming
McKinnon
McKinnon
Location in Wyoming
Basic data
State : United States
State : Wyoming
County : Sweetwater County
Coordinates : 41 ° 2 ′  N , 109 ° 56 ′  W Coordinates: 41 ° 2 ′  N , 109 ° 56 ′  W
Time zone : Mountain ( UTC − 7 / −6 )
Residents : 49 (as of 2000)
Population density : 0.6 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 79.9 km 2  (approx. 31 mi 2 ) of
which 79.9 km 2  (approx. 31 mi 2 ) is land
Height : 2151 m
Postal code : 82938
Area code : +1 307
FIPS : 56-49400
GNIS ID : 1591358

McKinnon is a census-designated place with 49 residents (as of 2000) in the south of Sweetwater County in Wyoming . The 80 km² area is located on Utah State Highway 414 between the Green River in the Flaming Gorge Reservoir in the east and the border with Uinta County in the west. The few inhabitants are spread over the McKinnon settlements and Burntfork, 5 km to the west.

In 1825 the first of the annual rendezvous of the trappers and fur traders of the company of William Henry Ashley took place on the Henrys Fork , a tributary of the Green River, near today's Burntfort . All of the company's famous Mountain Men such as Thomas Fitzpatrick , Jedediah Smith , Jim Bridger , William Sublette and his brother Milton , David E. Jackson , Etienne Provost and James P. Beckwourth came together, delivered the beaver pelts , were paid and took the barter goods Equipment for the next year. Ninety-one trappers from the company's own company came, Indians of various races such as Cheyenne and Crow and even fur hunters from the British Hudson's Bay Company who broke their contracts and sold their skins to the Americans.

From 1897, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ("Mormons") settled as homesteaders at Henry's Fork, and in 1899 the Woodruff Stake of Zion was established there as a regional division of the Church. The settlement then consisted of scattered farms and a shop and schoolhouse and was called Mountain View . In 1922 it was renamed after Archibald McKinnon, the founding president of the Woodruff Stakes, who died in 1915.

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