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One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Lora Webb Nichols House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Nichols, Lora Webb, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 808 Winchell Ave., Encampment, 82325
- When was it listed? July 2023
- Category. building
- Census division. Saratoga
- National Register reference number. 100009172 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
13 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Lora Webb Nichols House between 2003 and 2020, burning about 191 acres in total. 4 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 | 4 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| 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.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 August 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Carbon County | BALER FIRE |
| 4 August 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | PETERSEN |
| 4 August 2003 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 1.0 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
| 24 August 2017 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Carbon County | ROMIOS RANCH |
| 20 August 2017 | Other causes | 140 acres | Rawlins Field Office | ENCAMPMENT RIVER |
| 31 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Carbon County | ELK HOLLOW FIRE |
| 30 July 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Carbon County | MILEPOST 104 |
| 30 June 2006 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | EAST WOOD |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 18 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Lora Webb Nichols House: 6 past producers, 5 prospects, 5 occurrences, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Kyanite, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carlton, Big Chief, Pinyon and Pardelco Claims | Kyanite, Vermiculite, Mica | Past Producer | Kyanite | |
| Colorado Belle Group | Silver, Copper, Manganese, Zinc, Gold | Unknown | ||
| Encampment area (unnamed) | Garnet | Occurrence | ||
| Tennant Property | Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold | Prospect | Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper | |
| Unknown | Asbestos | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown | Mica | Prospect | ||
| Unknown | Talc-Soapstone | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown (Mineral Technology Corp) | Feldspar | Past Producer | ||
| King of the Camp Prospect | Copper, Gold | Past Producer | Hydrothermal vein | |
| Purgatory Gulch mines | Gold | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
5 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Encampment, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2002 | Lightning | Encampment | 1 killed | Lightning struck a tree and woman standing under it at the Pickaroon Campground inMedicine Bow National Forest. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Encampment | - | Reported wind damage in Savery to several outbuildings and several cottonwood trees were blown over. Time estimated off of radar. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Encampment | - | Peak thunderstorm wind gust measured at the Dixon Airport. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Encampment | - | Wind measured by the sensor at the Dixon Airport. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Encampment | - | no account filed |
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
2 within 8 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Willis House | under 500 feet | 2001 |
 | Grand Encampment Mining Region: Boston Wyoming Smelter Site | 0.9 miles | 1973 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009172 in Record Group 79. |
| Carbon County | All 43 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.
- 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.