Wyoming town with 1 resident sold for $900,000

[jeff of pa]

BUFORD, Wyo. (AP) — Buford is a small place for sure, but so is the world.
A remote, unincorporated area along busy Interstate 80 that advertised itself as the smallest town in the United States, Buford was sold at auction for $900,000 on Thursday.

The new owner will get a gas station and convenience store, a schoolhouse from 1905, a cabin, a garage, 10 acres, and a three-bedroom home at 8,000 feet altitude — overlooking the trucks and cars on the nearby interstate on one side and the distant snowcapped mountains in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado on the other.
The town traces its origins to the 1860s and the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad. Buford had as many as 2,000 residents before the railroad was rerouted.

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[bigscoop]

Just think of all the town offices you could hold title to!

 

[Michigan Badger]

That's a pretty good amount. I suspect one could buy Washington D.C. for that much. The main city expense would be the giant rodent extermination bill for the capital buildings.

 

[jeff of pa]

Just think of all the town offices you could hold title to!

Would be cool to have a hat for each office & Change it in front of everyone who needs a different official.

 

[jeff of pa]

That's a pretty good amount. I suspect one could buy Washington D.C. for that much. The main city expense would be the giant rodent extermination bill for the capital buildings.

I don't know is there such a thing as a Dimwit Exterminator

 

[spartacus53]

bigscoop, you were on the right track, but thinking to small.

I would declare de facto sovereignty, first into a sovereign state, then a sovereign nation

I've always wanted the title Grand High Exulted Mystic Ruler

 

[bigscoop]

bigscoop, you were on the right track, but thinking to small.

I would declare de facto sovereignty, first into a sovereign state, then a sovereign nation

I've always wanted the title Grand High Exulted Mystic Ruler

"Spartusville" capital of "Spartania"........

 

[Michigan Badger]

Everything is sovereign this or that today. Back years ago I was so fat I should have applied to make my person a sovereign nation.

 

[bigscoop]

bigscoop, you were on the right track, but thinking to small.

I would declare de facto sovereignty, first into a sovereign state, then a sovereign nation

I've always wanted the title Grand High Exulted Mystic Ruler

And your metal detecting, prospecting, artifact collecting laws...are what? Would we be required to have a permit?

 

[Michigan Badger]

Crap, I wish I'd known about this. I would have put in a bid. I was thinking this was some sort of joke or something. The buyer got a SUPER deal.

 

[jeff of pa]

my Guess population population will grow now.

and there will be rows of those ugly new homes that all look alike,
and nobody will be aloud to drive a car that is not approved by a Committee

 

[Jason in Enid]

The town dates back to the 1860s. If I bought it I would be using a front end loader to start scalping and sifting through every square foot of soil.

 

[Michigan Badger]

The town dates back to the 1860s. If I bought it I would be using a front end loader to start scalping and sifting through every square foot of soil.

Do I hear American Digger?

 

[bigscoop]

I wonder what the new owners have in mind for the place?

 

[Michigan Badger]

Due to all the attention the media has attracted to this thing the former owner says he's going to do a book about the place. Personally I'd tap into that some way. The opportunities are sky-high with that land.

He mentioned a couple foreigners wanted it along with some from this country. I wonder who ended up getting it. It might end up being the site of a new Mosque

 

[Jason in Enid]

Do I hear American Digger?

Nope, I wouldn't be planting finds and there wouldn't be any tv cameras anywhere close to my private property.

 

[Michigan Badger]

Nope, I wouldn't be planting finds and there wouldn't be any tv cameras anywhere close to my private property.

Kind of like "Storage Wars" only the planted loot is below ground and instead of above it.