JEFFREY CITY
Partially Abandoned Town — Jeffrey City, Fremont County, Wyoming
Status: Historic site · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/jeffrey-city-jeffrey-city-wyoming/

Former uranium boomtown retaining some residents.

A partly abandoned town in Jeffrey City, Wyoming, Jeffrey City is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Former uranium boomtown retaining some residents. HauntHunt files it with ghost towns and abandoned places. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.

Jeffrey City is the uranium town the atom built and broke — Beulah Walker's homestead stop called Home on the Range until Bob Adams found uranium at Crooks Gap and the Split Rock Mill went up in 1957. Renamed for Dr. Charles Jeffrey, the Rawlins doctor whose quarter-million kept the mill alive, the town went from a postmistress's filling station to five thousand people — one of Wyoming's twenty largest, with apartment blocks in the desert where there'd been nothing.
Three Mile Island ended it. Uranium prices collapsed in 1979, Western Nuclear shut the mill in 1982, and the population went from five thousand to fifty-eight — the empty apartments and the school built for a town that vanished still standing on Highway 287. It's the modern ghost town, mid-century architecture instead of log cabins, the boom's whole arc visible in a single wide spot between Muddy Gap and Sweetwater Station.
The file keeps Jeffrey City: Home on the Range, the Split Rock Mill, the 1980 peak, and the bust that took ninety-eight percent of the town.
Jeffrey City is the archive's uranium file — the boomtown the atom made and Three Mile Island unmade.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Jeffrey City is the archive's uranium file — the 1957 mill town and the 1982 bust.
A modern boomtown keeps its empty apartments — the file's suggestion being that Jeffrey City's hold is the speed: twenty-five years from homestead to five thousand to fifty-eight, the whole uranium cycle compressed into one highway stop.

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Population declined sharply after the mine closed; abandoned apartments remain. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. The detail is preserved in 'Ghost Towns & Cemeteries'. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Ghost Towns & Cemeteries — Alliance for Historic Wyoming
  https://historicwyoming.org/profiles/ghost-towns-cemeteries/

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