Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
From the record
“The Flying Horseshoe Ranch was established in the Centennial Valley of southeastern Wyoming by Danish immigrant Mads Wolbol in the late 1870s. The complex of mostly log structures, about 15 of which are considered contributing structures.”
Wikipedia article Flying Horseshoe Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 42 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 2000 · category: District.
National Register reference number.00001226- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
33 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Flying Horseshoe Ranch
between 1993 and 2019, burning about 13 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10
Natural
9
Recreation and ceremony
8
Debris and open burning
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Date
Cause
Size
Reported by
Name on the report
5 September 1993
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
not named
2 September 2002
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.5 acres
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
LIBBY LOOP
28 August 2011
Natural
under an acre
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
DEERWOOD
11 August 2010
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
LIBBY CREEK
1 August 2012
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
S CURVE 1
8 July 2007
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
GOLD
25 July 1994
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Wyoming State Forestry
not named
23 July 2016
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
19 workings within 5 miles of Flying Horseshoe Ranch: 13 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 unknown.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Platinum, Silver, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Centennial, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2021: 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 2 deaths. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
5 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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