Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
From the record
“The Carey Block - located at 602 Greybull Ave. in Greybull, Wyoming, United States - is a building that was built in 1916. It has also been known as Hurst Block, First State Bank, and Greybull Hotel .”
Wikipedia article Carey Block, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 16 National Register listings published here for Big Horn County · listed in 2009 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.09001110- 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
16 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Carey Block
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 337 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Debris and open burning
4
Natural
2
Fireworks
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
14 workings within 5 miles of Carey Block: 5 producers, 3 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 occurrences.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Bentonite, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Greybull, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 9 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 4 funnel cloud, 4 flood.
The reports record 1 injury. 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.
Shell Creek and its tributaries caused flooding in and around the community of Shell. The flooding was a result of continued snowmelt in the western Bighorn Mountains as the warmest temperatures of the season were attained. Damage was reported on the Kedesh Guest Ranch and a county road along Trappers Creek.
Flooding of the Spence Oil Field and other areas north of Greybull occurred along the Big Horn River. Three homes outside the Greybull levee system had minor flooding.
Flooding occurred on Shell, Horse, and Trapper creeks as snowmelt runoff increased. Lowland near the creeks and at least one guest ranch were impacted by the rising waters. No bridges were damaged by the high waters but several area roads were inundated and damaged.
A thunderstorm moving east along Dry Creek toward Greybull produced one to two inches of rain in Greybull in less than one hour. The town emergency manager reported a few rain gages in town measured slightly more than two inches of rain in 50 minutes. Pea sized hail of one inch in depth also occurred with the heavy rain. The Greybull storm drainage system was unable to keep up with the deluge of water and hail, flooding many prone areas around town. The heavy rain flooded portions of the Greybull River Road and several basements in town sustained damage.
Minor flooding of the Greybull River occurred just south of Greybull near State Highway 789. The flooding occurred at the confluence of the Greybull River and the rain-swollen Big Horn River. Heavy rain of the previous week had filled the Big Horn River and the snowmelt run-off in the Greybull River began to back-up near the confluence. A small levee was reported to have collapsed upstream of the confluence causing further problems. Sandbags were deployed to prevent damage. Most of the flooding was confined to low-lying areas and little damage was reported.
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
5 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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