Gillette Post Office

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Gillette Post Office in Gillette, Wyoming was built in 1935 by the Public Works Administration. The post office was one of the few monumental buildings in Gillette at the time and was a source of local pride.”
Wikipedia article Gillette Post Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Campbell County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 301 S. Gillette Ave., Gillette, 82721
When was it listed? October 2008
Category. building
Also known as. Historic US Post Offices in Wyoming, 1900-1941, TR
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 08001002 - 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.

Storms near this property

60 of 253 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gillette, the town this property stands in, in 253 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 158 hail, 70 thunderstorm wind, 14 tornado, 3 flood. The reports record 1 death and 9 injuries. 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 2013	Heavy Rain	Gillette	1 killed	A man checking if a culvert was clogged after heavy rain was swept into the culvert and drowned.
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	4 hurt, $50,000	Thunderstorm wind gusts blew over a fifth-wheel trailer. Four injuries (direct) occurred to the four occupants of the trailer. The injured people were treated and released from a local hospital. The trailer was not tied, or had it's wheels blocked, and awnings were extended. The trailer landed on an auto parked beside it.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	3 hurt, $2,000	The roof of a masonry ballpark dugout blew off, injuring 3 people. The injuries to two adults and a 2 year old child were minor.
July 1995	Hail	Gillette	2 hurt	One inch diameter hail fell in Recluse and in Gillette. The hail damaged trees and gardens in Gillette. One outdoor booth at a rodeo in Gillette was demolished and some trailers were damaged. At the same rodeo, 2 people sustained minor injuries due to the hail. The hail was in drifts 6 to 8 inches deep in Gillette.
May 2010	Hail	Gillette	$46,000,000	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Gillette	$17,000,000	no account filed
August 1993	Tornado (F1)	Gillette	$500,000	A rancher east of Gillette reported a tornado touched down briefly and destroyed a building and ripping a roof off a barn. No injuries with this storm.
May 2001	Flash Flood	Gillette	$400,000	no account filed
August 2009	Hail	Gillette	$200,000	Hail damaged houses and automobiles in the Oriva Hills subdivision northwest of Gillette.
June 2011	Hail	Gillette	$100,000	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	$100,000	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	$70,000	no account filed
May 2007	Flood	Gillette	$58,000	no account filed
June 2018	Tornado (EF1)	Gillette	$50,000	A short-lived landspout tornado developed three miles north-northeast of downtown Gillette in the Warrior Hills subdivision. It damaged a large shed, flipped a camper onto a vehicle, destroyed another camper, and damaged several wooded fences. Winds were estimated at 80 to 90 mph, giving the tornado a rating as a weak EF-1.
August 2013	Hail	Gillette	$50,000	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	$40,000	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	$25,000	no account filed
June 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Gillette	$10,000	A small tornado touched down briefly in the Highland Subdivision. It blew shingles off a roof, tore siding from a house, and blew down a portion of a fence.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	$5,000	Strong winds tore the roof off a garage.
August 2006	Hail	Gillette	$5,000	Numerous automobile windshields were shattered at Green Valley Estates north of Gillette.
June 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	$5,000	no account filed
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	$2,000	An aluminum storage shed was blown over and destroyed by the wind.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	$2,000	A tin roof was ripped off a barn.
September 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	$2,000	The combination of wind and hail caused minor damage.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	$1,000	Metal was peeled off a shed roof in the Freedom Hills Subdivision east of Wyodak.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	$500	no account filed
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	A power pole was knocked down, causing scattered power outages across eastern portions of Gillette.
July 2023	Hail	Gillette	-	The storm also produced wind gusts to 50 mph.
July 2023	Hail	Gillette	-	Wind driven hail broke windows and damaged siding.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Part of a neighbor's tin roof blew into the spotter's yard.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2020	Hail	Gillette	-	A couple of hail stones were about quarter size, although most were dime to nickel size.
June 2020	Hail	Gillette	-	Wind gusts reached 45 mph.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Large tree branches were downed by the wind.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Numerous sheds were destroyed, along with other minor property damage. Tree branches to six inches in diameter were broken. Three fires were started from downed power lines.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 70 mph.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Winds tore the roof off a barn and tossed the debris 150 feet.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	A power pole was snapped at its base.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Tree limbs were downed by the wind.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	The spotter reported siding and tree damage at their home, along with many downed power lines in the area.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Two inch diameter tree limbs were broken off trees.
August 2019	Hail	Gillette	-	Wind gusts to 50 mph were also reported.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	A tree was uprooted.
August 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	A 20 foot section of a metal roof and the rafters attached to the roof, were lifted off a newer building and landed 300 feet away.
August 2019	Flash Flood	Gillette	-	Runoff from over three inches of rain within two hours caused the coal mine pits at the Caballo Mine and the Belle Ayr Mine to fill with water. Several workers had to be evacuated due to the flash flooding.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Wind gusts of 60 to 70 mph downed a few trees and damaged building roofs in Gillette.
August 2016	Tornado (EF1)	Gillette	-	About a dozen homes in the Freedom Hills subdivision were damaged by a EF-1 tornado. A fifth wheel camper was rolled down a hill.
October 2016	Hail	Gillette	-	The ground was almost covered with hail.
October 2016	Hail	Gillette	-	Quarter sized hail was reported in the Wagon Wheel area of northwest Gillette.
October 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Wind-driven small hail damaged plants.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Gillette	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.

Every storm recorded in Campbell 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08001002 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Campbell County	All 5 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.
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.