Chief Washakie Hot Springs Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Fremont County · listed in 2025 · category: Site.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 3 miles east of Fort Washakie on Ethete Highway, Fort Washakie, 82501
When was it listed? 2025-04-07
Category. site
Census division. Wind River Reservation
National Register reference number. 100009578 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

215 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 215 fires within 5 miles of Chief Washakie Hot Springs Site between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,203 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 3 were 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
Debris and open burning	72
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	67
Fireworks	29
Misuse of fire by a minor	22
Smoking	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Natural	3
Other causes	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Fremont County	PARADISE VALLEY 2
5 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
3 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wind River Agency	THREE BARREL
27 September 2020	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Fremont County	2020-214
26 September 2014	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Wind River Agency	1457 17 MILE RD
25 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
23 September 2019	Fireworks	under an acre	Wind River Agency	CANAL
22 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fremont County	2019-169

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Chief Washakie Hot Springs Site: 2 producers. All of them still produce. What was taken out: 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
	Riverton Airport Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
	Riverton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Fremont 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Riverton Railroad Depot	5.9 miles	1978
	Delfelder Schoolhouse	7.4 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100009578 in Record Group 79.
Fremont County	All 31 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.