Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
From the record
“The Masonic Temple in downtown Casper, Wyoming is a Masonic hall, built in 1914 during a boom time initiated by the development of the Salt Creek Oil Field. Located on a corner site, the temple remains essentially as it was designed by Casper architect Homer F.”
Wikipedia article Masonic Temple (Casper, Wyoming), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 36 National Register listings published here for Natrona County · listed in 2005 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.05000926- 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
174 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Masonic Temple
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 16,136 acres in total. 20 started naturally. 3 were 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
91
Natural
20
Power generation/transmission/distribution
11
Fireworks
11
Debris and open burning
9
Smoking
9
Railroad operations and maintenance
7
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Arson/incendiarism
3
Recreation and ceremony
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
9 workings within 5 miles of Masonic Temple: 8 producers, 1 past producer.
8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite, Clay. 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
Casper, the town this property stands in, in 67 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 32 hail, 18 thunderstorm wind, 7 flash flood, 5 funnel cloud.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
A 34-year-old woman was killed when a dust devil flipped a small scorer's shed next to a team dugout at a youth ball field complex. The woman apparently sought shelter from the dust devil by positioning herself behind the shed. The shed was flipped one-half revolution, crushing her on the first flip and then rolling off of her. The woman was found about 10 minutes later as teams begin arriving for their evening games. Resuscitation efforts failed and she was declared dead at the scene.
One to two inches of rain fell on already saturated ground west of Casper along Poison Spider Road. Also, rainfall of 0.50 to 1.50 inches fell in less than one hour in and near the city of Casper. The rain produced flash flooding along Poison Spider and Paradise Valley roads and in some locales around Paradise Valley. Urban flooding was also observed along Interstate 25 in Casper.
Rainfall of 1.38 inches in 20 minutes produced flash flooding about three miles north-northeast of downtown Casper. A private road was washed out, and mud and silt surrounded at least one garage.
Rainfall of one to two inches fell in and around Casper. One location at Wyoming Medical Center recorded 1.75 inches of rain. The water accumulated at the intersection of Poplar and CY avenues and flooded the area.
Thunderstorm wind gusts of 60 to 65 mph were estimated near the Wyoming Medical Center in association with a thunderstorm that produced widespread flash flooding in Casper.
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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