Morton Mansion

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Morton Mansion was built in 1903 in Douglas, Wyoming for the family of John Morton. Morton was a sheep rancher who also served as an elected official, banker and civic leader in Douglas.”
Wikipedia article Morton Mansion (Douglas, Wyoming), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Converse County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 425 Center St., Douglas, 82633
When was it listed? January 2001
Category. building
Census division. Douglas
National Register reference number. 00001644 - 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

64 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Morton Mansion between 1996 and 2020, burning about 7,677 acres in total. 14 started naturally. None 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	19
Natural	14
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Smoking	4
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	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
8 September 2003	Natural	5.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
25 September 2012	Natural	30 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	BOBCAT CANYON
2 September 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Converse County	BRIDGER TRAIL
17 September 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Converse County	SOUTH BILL
17 September 2018	Railroad operations and maintenance	6,000 acres	Converse County	NORTH BILL
17 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
12 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Converse County	FETTERMAN/JEFFERSON
8 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	HIGHWAY 93 FIRE

Every fire recorded in Converse County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Morton Mansion: 7 producers, 2 prospects. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Albert Sims Fee Land	Uranium	Prospect
Unknown	Uranium	Prospect
Anderson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Carmen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Fort Fetterman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Lisco Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Minter Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Recluse Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Wintermote Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Converse County

Storms near this property

60 of 74 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Douglas, the town this property stands in, in 74 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 52 hail, 11 thunderstorm wind, 9 tornado, 2 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
August 1996	Hail	Douglas	$30,000	no account filed
July 2009	Hail	Douglas	$15,000	Strong wind gusts also reported in Douglas with some trees damaged or down. Some car windows broken.
July 1998	Hail	Douglas	$7,000	A storm produced golfball to base ball size hail, which covered the ground, on several ranches 40 miles northwest of Douglas.
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	$5,000	High winds blew a barn roof over 100 yards 2 miles west of Douglas, WY
July 1998	Flash Flood	Douglas	$2,000	A storm produced up to 6 inches of rainfall from 50 miles northwest of Douglas to 30 miles north of Douglas. Water covered many rural roads in the area.
June 2025	Hail	Douglas	-	Public reports quarter size hail.
May 2023	Hail	Douglas	-	The public reported quarter sized hail in the city of Douglas.
May 2023	Hail	Douglas	-	Received report of dime to penny size hail.
September 2023	Hail	Douglas	-	The public reported ping-pong ball sized hail 2 miles S of Douglas. Received via mPING.
September 2023	Hail	Douglas	-	Half dollar sized hail reported 4 miles WSW of Douglas. Minor roof damage reported.
September 2023	Hail	Douglas	-	Golf ball sized hail was reported in Douglas.
September 2023	Hail	Douglas	-	The public reported half dollar sized hail 4 miles W of Douglas. Received via mPING.
August 2021	Hail	Douglas	-	Report of penny sized hail received from mPING.
May 2020	Hail	Douglas	-	Observer reported hail via mPING.
May 2020	Hail	Douglas	-	Observer reported hail via mPING.
May 2020	Hail	Douglas	-	Observer reported hail via Twitter.
July 2018	Tornado (EF3)	Douglas	-	The first observed evidence of the tornado was near Rattlesnake Hill just north of Wagonhound Road. The tornado moved to the south and quickly grew stronger. The NWS survey team continued to investigate some video evidence that the tornado may have been on the ground prior to Rattlesnake Hill. The tornado snapped several trees and power poles along Wagonhound Road, and blew several large rolls of hay nearly 300 yards from a large hay bale stack. The tornado intensified as it moved south toward a ranch, reaching EF3 intensity through the barn and residence, destroying several buildings and causing significant damage to the ranch house. The ranch house had large sections of roof structure removed, and a quonset hut tractor storage area just west of the house was destroyed. Two large utility trailers weighing several thousand pounds were lofted and had not been located, with the exception of one axel set. Large cottonwood trees were stripped of all vegetation with just the largest limbs near the center of the trees remaining intact. The tornado continued south-southeast before lifting in the vicinity of Poison Lake. Start and end and locations and times of the tornado were estimated from eyewitness accounts and radar data.
June 2018	Hail	Douglas	-	Half dollar size hail was observed north of Douglas.
July 2018	Hail	Douglas	-	Half dollar size hail was observed north of Douglas.
June 2017	Hail	Douglas	-	Hen egg size hail was observed two miles east of Douglas.
June 2017	Hail	Douglas	-	Hen egg size hail was observed at Douglas.
June 2017	Hail	Douglas	-	Ping pong ball size hail dented vehicles and broke house windows.
June 2017	Hail	Douglas	-	Quarter to golf ball size hail was observed at Douglas.
June 2017	Hail	Douglas	-	Softball size hail was observed eight miles of Douglas.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	-	Estimated wind gusts of 65 mph were reported seven miles east of Douglas.
July 2015	Hail	Douglas	-	Quarter size hail was observed 12 miles northwest of Douglas.
June 2015	Hail	Douglas	-	Golf ball size hail was observed 17 miles west of Douglas.
June 2015	Hail	Douglas	-	Quarter size hail was observed eight miles east of Douglas.
June 2015	Hail	Douglas	-	Half dollar size hail was reported 12 miles north-northwest of Douglas.
June 2015	Hail	Douglas	-	Half dollar size hail was reported seven miles east-southeast of Douglas.
June 2015	Tornado (EF0)	Douglas	-	An EF0 tornado touched down in open country just east of Box Elder Creek and was on the ground for two minutes before it lifted. No damage was reported.
June 2015	Hail	Douglas	-	Quarter size hail was observed 17 miles northeast of Douglas.
May 2014	Hail	Douglas	-	Quarter size hail was reported southwest of Douglas.
May 2014	Hail	Douglas	-	Quarter size hail was observed northeast of Deer Creek.
May 2014	Hail	Douglas	-	Quarter size hail was observed east of Laprele Reservoir.
August 2013	Hail	Douglas	-	Quarter size hail was reported east of Douglas.
June 2013	Hail	Douglas	-	Quarter to ping pong ball size hail was reported at mile marker 12 on Highway 59. Vehicles pulled off the highway due to the large hail and heavy rain.
June 2013	Hail	Douglas	-	Pea to quarter size hail was reported in Douglas.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	-	The ASOS wind sensor at the Converse County Airport measured a peak gust of 64 mph.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	-	The ASOS wind sensor at the Converse County Airport north of Douglas measured a peak gust of 82 mph.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	-	The ASOS wind sensor measured gusts of 58 mph or greater, with a peak gust of 64 mph at 25/1348L.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	-	The ASOS wind sensor at the Converse County Airport measured a peak gust of 59 mph.
June 2011	Hail	Douglas	-	Hail observed 9 miles SSE of Laprele Reservoir. Most stones were smaller.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	-	ASOS wind sensor at the Converse County Airport measured a peak wind gust of 63 mph.
July 2009	Flash Flood	Douglas	-	Heavy rains flooded parts of state highways 91 and 94, resulting in closure for a time.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	-	Wind gusts from 60 to 70 mph reported around Douglas, WY.
August 2007	Hail	Douglas	-	Many reports received from the public of hail around golf ball size.
July 2006	Tornado (F0)	Douglas	-	Brief tornado reported by airplane pilot.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	-	Wind gusts estimated from 60 to 70 mph.
August 2005	Tornado (F0)	Douglas	-	Brief tornado spotted over open country.
May 1998	Tornado (F0)	Douglas	-	A weak tornado moved over open country northwest of Douglas before disipating.
June 1998	Tornado (F0)	Douglas	-	A bief tornado touched down to the northeast of Bill, WY.
July 1997	Tornado (F0)	Douglas	-	Brief touchdown in open country.
July 1997	Tornado (F0)	Douglas	-	Brief touchdown in open country reported by pilot.
July 1997	Tornado (F0)	Douglas	-	Brief touchdown in open country.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	-	no account filed
May 2020	Hail	Douglas	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	Douglas	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	Douglas	-	no account filed
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Converse 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

6 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
Christ Episcopal Church and Rectory	under 500 feet	1980
Jenne Block	0.1 miles	1998
College Inn Bar	0.1 miles	1979
US Post Office-Douglas Main	0.1 miles	1987
Douglas City Hall	0.2 miles	1994
North Douglas Historic District	0.2 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00001644 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Converse County	All 19 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.