Sommers Ranch Headquarters Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The Sommers Ranch Headquarters Historic District is a historic ranch complex located southwest of Pinedale, Wyoming. The district includes 11 wooden buildings, including a homestead house, a bunkhouse, a barn, and various other farm buildings and outbuildings.”
Wikipedia article Sommers Ranch Headquarters Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Sublette County · listed in 2009 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 734 Co. Rd. 23-110, Pinedale, 82941
When was it listed? June 2009
Category. district
Census division. Pinedale
National Register reference number. 09000454 - 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

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Sommers Ranch Headquarters Historic District between 1998 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. 2 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
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
7 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	DANIEL
28 August 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Sublette County	MURDOCK RANCH
13 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Sublette County	FAYETTE BALER FIRE
11 August 1999	Natural	1.0 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	COTTONWOOD
25 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pinedale Field Office	MESA

Every fire recorded in Sublette County

Storms near this property

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinedale, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 2 lightning, 2 hail. The reports record 1 death and 5 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
June 2003	Lightning	Pinedale	1 killed, 1 hurt	no account filed
June 2001	Lightning	Pinedale	4 hurt	Oil field workers.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Pinedale	$40,200	no account filed
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Pinedale	$5,000	Several trees were blown over, knocking out power to around 350 customers in Daniel and Pinedale. Shingles were blown off of the Museum Of The Mountain Man.
March 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Pinedale	$2,000	Trees downed in Pinedale. Roof damage of some buildings at Ralph Wenz Field southeast of Pinedale.
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Pinedale	-	A 64 mph wind gust was reported at Half Moon Lake to the northeast of Pinedale.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Pinedale	-	Trees were reported downed at the Boyd Skinner Park.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Pinedale	-	A 58 mph wind gust was reported near Pinedale.
July 2011	Funnel Cloud	Pinedale	-	Several reports were received of a funnel cloud just east of Pinedale. The funnel was clearly visible from town.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Pinedale	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Pinedale	-	no account filed
June 2004	Flash Flood	Pinedale	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Pinedale	-	no account filed
July 1997	Funnel Cloud	Pinedale	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Pinedale	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Pinedale	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sublette 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
ENP Bridge over Green River	0.3 miles	1985
Father DeSmet's Prairie Mass Site	7.3 miles	1970
Upper Green River Rendezvous Site	7.4 miles	1966
Log Cabin Motel	8.0 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000454 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sublette County	All 20 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.
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.