Headquarters Park Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

“The Headquarters Park Historic District encompasses the summer headquarters for the Leo Sheep Company, which focused on wool production, and the Rocky Mountain Sheep Company, which concentrated on lamb production, in Carbon County, Wyoming. The area was one of the major summer sheep and lamb-herding regions of Wyoming.”
Wikipedia article Headquarters Park Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 2012 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 3 sitess, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. Approx. 1 mi. N. of WY 130 on USFS road 103, Centennial
When was it listed? April 2012
Category. district
Census division. Saratoga
National Register reference number. 11000748 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

21 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Headquarters Park Historic District between 1994 and 2020, burning about 328 acres in total. 13 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	13
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
8 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	DIPPER LAKE
8 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	HOPELESS
6 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	LIBBY CREEK
6 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	FRENCH CREEK
3 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	DAVES
14 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	not named
12 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	TELEPHONE CREEK
1 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	NORTH TWIN LAKE

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Headquarters Park Historic District: 4 prospects, 4 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Iron, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Lewis Lake quartz vein	Gold, Thorium, Uranium	Prospect
Libby Flats prospect	Gold, Silver	Prospect
Lorain Group	Iron	Occurrence	Metamorphic
Bellamy Lake copper prospect	Copper	Prospect	Chalcopyrite
Waterloo Prospect 1	Copper, Gold	Prospect
Billie Class stamp mill and prospects	Gold	Past Producer
Gold Hill District	Gold	Past Producer
LaPlata District	Gold	Past Producer
Red Mask Mine	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Carbon 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 11000748 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.