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Town with one resident auctioned for $900,000

Buford resident Don Sammons stands in front of the population sign in a Jan. 1, 2011 photo. Sammons is the town's sole resident and will sell the town by auction. (Michael Smith / Wyoming Tribune Eagle)
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BUFORD, Wyo. — A Wyoming town advertised as the smallest in the United States has sold at auction for $900,000. Buford is located between Cheyenne and Laramie in southeast Wyoming. An unidentified Vietnamese man placed the winning bid at auction Thursday. As owner of the place along Interstate 80, he will get a gas station and convenience store, a schoolhouse from 1905, a cabin, a garage, 10 acres of land, and a three-bedroom home. The town has just one inhabitant, Don Sammons. He plans to retire from his unofficial title as “mayor” of the unincorporated community and managing his businesses, and move on. The town traces its origins to the 1860s and the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad and had as many as 2,000 residents before the railroad was rerouted.