Flying Horseshoe Ranch

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.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 156 Dinwiddie Rd., Centennial, 82055
When was it listed? October 2000
Category. district
Census division. South Albany
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	CENTENNIAL

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Archer Placer Claim	Gold, Iridium, Platinum, Osmium, Palladium	Producer	Stream Placer
Centennial Ridge District	Gold, Platinum, Palladium	Past Producer	1874, 1875
Columbine Mine	Copper, Silver, Gold, Platinum	Past Producer	1927
Empire Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper, Platinum, Palladium, Osmium, Ruthenium, Rhodium, Iridium	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Malachite, Pyrite
Fall Creek Placer	Gold, Rhodium, Osmium, Platinum	Past Producer	Stream Placer
Free Gold Claim	Gold, Copper, Silver, Platinum	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Gold, Malachite, Pyrite
Independence Mine	Silver, Copper, Gold, Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium, Nickel, Osmium, Iridium	Past Producer	Gold, Pyrite
Independence Placer	Gold, Osmium, Ruthenium, Rhodium, Palladium, Platinum	Occurrence	Stream Placer
Kentucky Derby Mine	Copper, Gold, Silver, Iridium, Osmium, Palladium, Platinum	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Chrysocolla, Gold, Malachite, Pyrite
Queen Mill Run	Gold, Palladium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum	Past Producer	Stream Placer

Every working recorded in Albany County

Storms near this property

4 since 1999

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1999	Lightning	Centennial	2 killed	no account filed
July 2021	Flash Flood	Centennial	-	Spotter reported one inch of rainfall in thirty minutes along with pea size hail.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Centennial	-	The WYDOT sensor at Quealy Dome measured a wind gust of 61 mph.
July 2021	Hail	Centennial	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Albany County

Map coverage status

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Centennial Depot	2.2 miles	1982
Mountain View Hotel	2.3 miles	2007
Centennial Work Center	3.4 miles	1994
Libby Lodge	4.7 miles	1976
Vee Bar Ranch Lodge	5.7 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001226 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Albany County	All 42 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

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.