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One of 20 National Register listings published here for Sublette County · listed in 2023 · category: District · built in 1930.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Big Sandy Lodge
Built in 1930. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- Address. 1050 Mud Lake Road, Boulder, 82923
- When was it listed? November 2023
- Category. district
- Census division. Boulder
- When was it built? 1930
- National Register reference number. 100009516 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
25 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Big Sandy Lodge between 1996 and 2020, burning about 561 acres in total. 12 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 | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 4 |
| Smoking | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Bridger-Teton National Forest | MUD FIRE |
| 28 September 2016 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Bridger-Teton National Forest | MUDDY LAKE |
| 22 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | 9.3 acres | Bridger-Teton National Forest | IRISH |
| 20 September 2011 | Natural | 80 acres | Bridger-Teton National Forest | ASPEN CREEK |
| 15 September 2010 | Natural | under an acre | Bridger-Teton National Forest | IRISH |
| 9 August 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Bridger-Teton National Forest | NORTH TEMPLE |
| 9 August 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 acres | Rock Springs Field Office | |
| 26 August 2001 | Natural | 440 acres | Bridger-Teton National Forest | IRON CREEK |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Big Sandy Lodge: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Molybdenum. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unidentified Occurence | Molybdenum | Prospect | Molybdenite |
Storms near this property
5 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boulder, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2018: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2018 | Hail | Boulder | - | A trained spotter reported nickel size hail to the east of Boulder. |
| March 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Boulder | - | Measured wind gust on home weather station. |
| July 2005 | Hail | Boulder | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Boulder | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Boulder | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009516 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.