Schunk Lodge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

“Schunk Lodge is a log cabin located in a remote section of the Bighorn Mountains. The cabin was used as a mail stage stop and as a dude ranch before it became a mountain cabin for Will Schunk, a conservationist who was instrumental in the establishment of the nearby Cloud Peak Wilderness.”
Wikipedia article Schunk Lodge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Big Horn County · listed in 2018 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 7 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Approx. 1 mi. N of Red Grade Rd. & Big Goose RS, Bighorn NF, Big Horn
When was it listed? January 2018
Category. district
Census division. South Big Horn
National Register reference number. 100001955 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Schunk Lodge between 2005 and 2020, burning about 26 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	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
11 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bighorn National Forest	LILLY LAKE
22 August 2018	Natural	under an acre	Bighorn National Forest	GRANITE 2
10 August 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bighorn National Forest	GRANITE LAKE
11 June 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	26 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
9 October 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bighorn National Forest	LILY LAKE

Every fire recorded in Big Horn 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 100001955 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Big Horn County	All 16 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.