Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
From the record
“The Wyoming State Hospital, once known as the Wyoming State Insane Asylum, is located in Evanston, Wyoming, United States. The historic district occupies the oldest portion of the grounds and includes fifteen contributing buildings, including the main administrative building, staff and patient dormitories, staff apartments and houses, a cafeteria and other buildings, many of which were designed by Cheyenne, Wyoming architect William Dubois.”
Wikipedia article Wyoming State Hospital, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 13 National Register listings published here for Uinta County · listed in 2003 · category: District.
National Register reference number.03000084- 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
46 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Wyoming State Insane Asylum
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,120 acres in total. 4 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
13
Misuse of fire by a minor
7
Fireworks
5
Debris and open burning
5
Natural
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Recreation and ceremony
3
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Smoking
2
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Wyoming State Insane Asylum: 4 past producers, 2 unknowns.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Evanston, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 18 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail.
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.
Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph struck Evanston late on the 4th. Several trees were blown down and a large branch was blown onto a bathroom at the Bear River State Park causing $10,000 damage.
A strong thunderstorm brought multiple severe gusts measured by the Evanston-Uinta County Airport - Burns Field ASOS. The first severe gust, which occurred at 1455, was measured at 59mph. This was then followed by a gust to 64mph at 1457, followed by the third and final severe gust to 64mph at 1502 as multiple storms tracked over Evanston, WY.
The Evanston-Uinta County Airport - Burns Field ASOS (KEVW) station recorded a period of wind gusts to 70 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
The Evanston-Uinta County Airport - Burns Field ASOS recorded wind gusts of 60 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
The Evanston-Uinta County Airport - Burns Field ASOS recorded a wind gust of 59 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
The Evanston-Uinta County Airport - Burns Field ASOS recorded a period of wind gusts up to 73 mph between 5:58 pm and 7:09 pm MST. The gusts were the result of outflow winds associated with a line of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
A large severe thunderstorm complex formed over east-central Utah during the morning hours of the 31st and developed a remarkable bow echo as it moved across central and northern Utah. This same system held together as it entered southwest Wyoming and produced wind gusts in excess of 60 mph downing a large tree in Evanston.
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.
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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