Editing Moorcroft, Wyoming (section)

==History==
[[File:Grain elevator in Moorcroft, Wyoming.jpg|thumb|Grain elevator in Moorcroft]]
[[File:The Peoples Bank of Moorcroft, Wyoming, completed this building in 1919, but the bank itself stayed in business less than a decade; it was owned by a parent bank in Cheyenne that failed, causing its LCCN2015634191.tif|thumb|Old Peoples Bank of Moorcroft]]

Moorcroft was incorporated on October 2, 1906.<ref name="Profile for Moorcroft, Wyoming">{{cite web|url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=23224|title=Profile for Moorcroft, Wyoming|publisher=[[ePodunk]]|accessdate=May 28, 2010}}</ref> The exact meaning of Moorcroft is unknown but over the years has several suggested origins for the name. The town was named in 1876 after Alexander Moorcroft, an early settler from Northern England who built a cabin in the [[Black Hills]] of Wyoming.<ref name="Gazetteer files">{{cite web|title=US Gazetteer files 2010|url=https://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=December 14, 2012|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120702145235/http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txt|archivedate=July 2, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Profile for Moorcroft, Wyoming"/><ref name="wyomingtalesandtrails.com">{{Cite web|url=http://www.wyomingtalesandtrails.com/moorcroft.html|title=Moorcroft -- Wyoming Tales and Trails}}</ref><ref>Encyclopedia of Wyoming by Nancy Capace p239 North American Book Dist LLC, 2001</ref>  The name Moorcroft was chosen by the community’s first postman Stocks Millar (1858-1890) after his home town in Scotland.<ref name="Gazetteer files"/><ref name="wyomingtalesandtrails.com"/>