# Emigrant Springs

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This article is about the site in Wyoming. For the site in Oregon, see [Emigrant Springs State Heritage Area](/source/Emigrant_Springs_State_Heritage_Area). For the site in Nevada, see [Emigrant Springs Formation](/source/Emigrant_Springs_Formation).

**Emigrant Springs**, in [Lincoln County, Wyoming](/source/Lincoln_County,_Wyoming) near [Kemmerer](/source/Kemmerer,_Wyoming), was an important camping ground area of wagon trains on the [Emigrant Trail](/source/Emigrant_Trail_in_Wyoming) headed for California or Oregon, and is now a historic site listed on the [National Register of Historic Places](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places).

It is located on a "main branch" of the [Sublette Cutoff](/source/Sublette_Cutoff) of the Emigrant Trail, where the slightly longer but better watered [Slate Creek Cutoff](/source/Slate_Creek_Cutoff) rejoins the Sublette Cutoff. It is named for a spring feeding Emigrant Creek, which empties into Slate Creek. It is located in a hollow and has also been known as **Indian Springs**.[2]

The Emigrant Trail splits further west into trails to California vs. to Oregon. A different [Emigrant Springs in Oregon](/source/Emigrant_Springs_State_Heritage_Area) is located on the [Oregon Trail](/source/Oregon_Trail).

Significance of this Wyoming site dates to 1843.[1]

The NRHP listing recognizes carvings on rock and gravesites in a 9-acre (3.6-hectare) area containing two separate [contributing sites](/source/Contributing_sites). Emigrant Springs was listed on the [National Register of Historic Places](/source/National_Register_of_Historic_Places) in 1976.[1]

## See also

- [Johnston Scout Rocks](/source/Johnston_Scout_Rocks), a nearby NRHP-listed site with rock carvings

## References

1. ["Emigrant Springs"](http://wyoshpo.state.wy.us/trailsdemo/emigrant_springs.htm). Wyoming.

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