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Sunrise Mine Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“Sunrise was a company mining town of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company located in Platte County, Wyoming, United States. The entire site of the former mining district and town is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).”

Wikipedia article Sunrise, Wyoming, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Platte County · listed in 2005 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. WY 318, Hartville, 82215
  • When was it listed? December 2005
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Guernsey
  • National Register reference number. 05000925 - 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

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Sunrise Mine Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 17,463 acres in total. 10 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/undetermined10
Natural10
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePlatte CountyN23
5 August 2002Natural2.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
23 August 2001Natural669 acresCasper Field OfficeBOHNSTEAD
19 August 2019Natural1.0 acresPlatte CountyROCK SLIDE FIRE
15 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
27 July 2006Natural13,305 acresCasper Field OfficeOLD CHICAGO
24 July 2019Naturalunder an acreCasper Field OfficeGOSHEN RIM
22 July 2012Naturalunder an acreCasper Field OfficeSUNRISE

Every fire recorded in Platte County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Sunrise Mine Historic District: 12 occurrences, 6 past producers, 6 unknowns, 5 prospects. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Mica, Graphite, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Chicago ProspectStrontiumUnknown
Green Mtn BoyCopper, SilverPast Producer
Guernsey QuarrySand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Haystack No 2 ClaimFeldsparOccurrence
Ingleside QuarriesLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Pete Kiewit & SonsStoneProducer
Sunrise MineIron, ZincPast Producer1887, 1901, 1963
UnknownCalciumProducer
UnknownGoldOccurrence
UnknownBerylliumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Platte County

Storms near this property

9 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hartville, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2010 and 2025: 9 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2025HailHartville-Picture from social media showing ping pong ball size hail at Guernsey State Park.
June 2024HailHartville-The public reported ping pong ball sized hail in Hartville.
August 2016HailHartville-Quarter size hail was reported at Hartville.
June 2010HailHartville-Report located just off Sunrise Highway.
June 2010HailHartville-Estimated time of report.
June 2010HailHartville-Hail measured 2.5 to 3.5 inches. Hills to the north white with hail.
June 2010HailHartville-Report located on Sunrise Highway.
September 2019HailHartville-no account filed
June 2010HailHartville-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Platte 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

4 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Guernsey Lake Park4.0 miles1980
Lake Guernsey State Park5.5 miles1997
Oregon Trail Ruts5.7 miles1966
Register Cliff5.8 miles1970

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 05000925 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Platte CountyAll 14 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.