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Jeffrey City, Wyoming
Jeffrey City Is a former uranium mining boomtown located in Fremont County, in central Wyoming. The town is famous in Wyoming and the American West as symbol of a boomtown that went “bust” very quickly, as the mine was shut down in 1982 and over 95% of the inhabitants left the town within 3 years Home on the Range No More: The Boom and Bust of a Wyoming Uranium Mining Town 1957 -1958..
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