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One of 38 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 2023 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
American Legion Hall
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- Address. 324 East 1st Street, Powell, 82426
- When was it listed? December 2023
- Category. building
- National Register reference number. 100009598 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Storms near this property
11 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Powell, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 5 hail, 2 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2000 | Hail | Powell | $500,000 | no account filed |
| August 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powell | $6,000 | An automated weather station on the far west side of Powell recorded a peak thunderstorm wind gust of 58.3 mph at 1708MST. The wind dropped a tree on North Douglas Street in Powell and stopped traffic for 30 minutes. Seven other toppled trees in an older section of town blocked streets for approximately three hours until city crews could clear the debris using chainsaws. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Powell | - | In Park County, a trained spotter reported nickel-sized hail with a thunderstorm near Powell, WY. |
| July 2019 | Flash Flood | Powell | - | Nearly an inch of rain and a large amount of large hail fell in only 20 minutes around Powell, Wyoming. The result were numerous areas that were flooded, including streets, businesses and homes. The main damage was from water in basements and flooded roads. |
| April 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Powell | - | A thunderstorm rolled across the northern Big Horn Basin and produced a severe wind gust at an automated station in Powell. |
| June 2005 | Tornado (F0) | Powell | - | This tornado formed 5 miles east/southeast of Powell and tracked eastward for 3.5 miles before exiting Park County about 8.5 miles east/southeast of Powell. This tornado continued in Big Horn County for another half mile, before dissipating at 1231 MST. This tornado formed over open country without damage, therefore it was rated as F0. |
| July 2025 | Hail | Powell | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Hail | Powell | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Heavy Rain | Powell | - | no account filed |
| August 1998 | Hail | Powell | - | no account filed |
| June 1998 | Flash Flood | Powell | - | 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 100009598 in Record Group 79. |
| Park County | All 38 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.
- 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.