Rural Electrification – Basin WY

City:
Basin, WY

Site Type:
Electricity, Infrastructure and Utilities

New Deal Agencies:
Public Works Funding, Rural Electrification Administration (REA)

Started:
1937

Quality of Information:
Moderate

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

The Western Construction News notes REA work in this small town of 903 (1930 census).

“The REA has alloted $82,000 to the Big Horn Rural Electric Company, Basin WY, for construction of 85 miles of transmission lines in Big Horn County, Wyoming.”

Source notes

Western Construction News June 1937

Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on May 10, 2017.

Location Info

Basin , WY 82410
Big Horn County

Location notes: General location marker

Coordinates: 44.380, -108.04

Site Details

Federal Cost
$82,000.00

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