This Wyoming Town Named As An “ABANDOND PLACE”

Abandoned Spaces is a Facebook page and Website that looks at places around the world that humans have left.

They will look at any place on the planet from above ground to under it, even under water and under ice.

Recently, on their Facebook page, they took a look at Jeffrey City, Wyoming.

Their post has so far brought almost 300 comments, with many of them being from Wyoming.

Below are a couple of the longer comments from people who know the history of Jeffery City.

Some comments were from people who remembered the town when it was a booming little place, full of life.

More comments from people who lived there are further down in this post.

It may have been the biggest town bust in Wyoming history. Once sporting a population of thousands, Jeffery City Wyoming now has only 58 people.

In 2016, my sister, her husband, and their two daughters came to see Wyoming for the first time. While crossing the state, we passed Jeffery City, and I told them about the town. They wanted to stop and see it.

While there, we found that they had taken an abandoned apartment and turned it into the town library in order to save the books from the now-closed school library. We stopped and spoke to the librarian, Nadine Graham, who has lived in the town since 1958.

The video of my conversation with Nadine Graham is below.

Jeffrey City began back in in 1931 when a Nebraska couple named the Petersons relocated because Mr. Peterson was sick after having been gassed in World War I. Mrs. Beulah Peterson opened two gas pumps when the highway came through, and began cooking for those who stopped by.

The town boomed when the uranium mine opened to mine for America's nuclear arsenal and power plants. Thousands of people moved to the area. They built a large high school with an Olympic-sized swimming pool. But when the market went bust the town collapsed.

The town went bust in 1982, and over 95% of the inhabitants left the town within 3 years.

Scroll down to find pictures of more abandoned Wyoming places to explore.