Carrico Nebraska

Former post office · Hayes County · post office 1880s–1914

About Carrico

Carrico was a post office and early settlement on Red Willow Creek in northwestern Hayes County, about 25 miles north of Culbertson.

History

The county history says the first homesteads in Hayes County were taken near the Carrico post office on Red Willow Creek in 1874, with large cattle ranches nearby, and that the office was established in 1880. Carrico is listed as a post office in 1882 and in the 1890 gazetteer; postal records also show an office from July 13, 1896, to May 15, 1914, probably a re-establishment.