McKinnon (Wyoming)

Sweetwater County

56-49400

McKinnon is a census -designated place with a population of 49 (as of 2000) in the south of Sweetwater County in Wyoming. The 80 km ² area is located on Utah State Highway 414 between the Green River in Flaming Gorge Reservoir to the east and the border with the Uinta County to the west. The few inhabitants are distributed among the settlements McKinnon and 5 km west location Burntfork.

1825 took place on Henry's Fork River, a tributary of the Green River, in today's Burntfort the first of the annual Rendezvous called business meetings of the trappers and fur traders of the Company by William Henry Ashley instead. All the famous mountain men of the company 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 from the beaver furs, paid and took the exchange of goods and equipment for the next year contrary. 91 Trapper of your own company came, Indians of several tribes such as Cheyenne and Crow, and even fur trappers of the British Hudson 's Bay Company, which were in breach of contract and their skins sold to the Americans.

From 1897 members of the Church of Jesus Christ to settle the Latter-day Saints ( "Mormon " ) as homesteaders on the Henry's Fork and 1899 there was the Woodruff Stake of Zion founded as a regional division of the church. The village then consisted of scattered farms, as well as a shop and a schoolhouse and Mountain View was called. In 1922, she was by Archibald McKinnon, died in 1915 and the founding president of the Woodruff Stakes, renamed.