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Airport (former) Development – Baggs WY

Project type: Airports, Infrastructure and Utilities
Agency: Civil Works Administration (CWA), Work Relief Programs
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Description

The Civil Works Administration (CWA) worked to construct / develop an airstrip at Shoshoni, Wyoming, created by “grubbing sagebrush and clearing field.” A 1950s map shows an airport south of town, at the coordinates below.

Source notes

Building Up Wyoming: Depression-Era Federal Projects in Wyoming, 1929–1943. Michael Cassity. Prepared for the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office ... (pg. 104).

https://www.michaelcassity.org/uploads/1/2/7/7/12777320/wyodepressionerafedprojects_mpdf.pdf (accessed Jul. 19, 2022)


https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/img4/ht_icons/overlay/WY/WY_Baggs_342022_1957_62500_geo.jpg

Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 19, 2022.

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Location Info

Baggs, WY

Coordinates: 41.0225, -107.6569

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