Kirby Jail and Town Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“The Kirby Jail and Town Hall is a historic building located at 120 E. 4th St. in Kirby, Wyoming. Built in 1915, the building was the first and only town building constructed in Kirby, which incorporated the same year.”
Wikipedia article Kirby Jail and Town Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Hot Springs County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 120 E. 4th St., Kirby, 82430
When was it listed? December 2011
Category. building
Census division. Thermopolis West
National Register reference number. 11000875 - 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

42 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Kirby Jail and Town Hall between 1993 and 2020, burning about 272 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	24
Debris and open burning	6
Natural	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Fireworks	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Recreation and ceremony	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
5 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Washakie County	WINCHESTER RAIL 2
5 September 2015	Natural	7.5 acres	Worland Field Office	COAL DRAW
4 September 2017	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.1 acres	Worland Field Office	WINCHESTER RAIL
30 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Worland Field Office	AXEL
22 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Worland Field Office	LUCERNE
10 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
3 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Worland Field Office	QUINCY FIRE
3 August 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Hot Springs 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 Kirby Jail and Town Hall: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. 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
	Kelley	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Kirby Borrow Area	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hot Springs County

Storms near this property

16 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kirby, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1999 and 2017: 11 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Kirby	-	A weather station in Kirby reported a wind gust of 63 mph.
June 2015	Hail	Kirby	-	Pea to nickel sized hail fell just west of Kirby.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Kirby	-	The Hot Springs County emergency manager reported a 60 mph wind gust at Kirby.
July 2013	Hail	Kirby	-	Penny to nickel sized hail was reported in Kirby.
June 2007	Hail	Kirby	-	Hail the size of nickels reported by the public.
August 2007	Hail	Kirby	-	Golf ball sized hail fell to the north of Little Cottonwood Creek in northern Hot Springs County.
June 2001	Hail	Kirby	-	no account filed
July 2001	Funnel Cloud	Kirby	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Kirby	-	no account filed
July 2001	Tornado (F2)	Kirby	-	no account filed
July 2001	Flash Flood	Kirby	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Kirby	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Kirby	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Kirby	-	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Kirby	-	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Kirby	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hot Springs 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 11000875 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hot Springs County	All 12 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.