BlockFrom the record
One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 2012 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Site 32 SL-O Intermediate Field Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.
The listing
- Address. .9 mi. SE. of Medicine Bow off Cty. Rd. 1, Medicine Bow, 82329
- When was it listed? February 2012
- Category. district
- Census division. Hanna
- National Register reference number. 12000054 - 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
3 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Site 32 SL-O Intermediate Field Historic District between 2000 and 2018, burning under an acre in total. None 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 | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | ROBBERS ROOST |
| 9 August 2000 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Rawlins Field Office | GRINDER 2 |
| 19 July 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Carbon County | 2018-7 |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Site 32 SL-O Intermediate Field Historic District: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heward | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Prospect | ||
| Wyoming Highway Dept. | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Medicine Bow, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 3 hail, 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 2024 | Hail | Medicine Bow | - | A storm chaser reported 2-inch diameter hail 4 miles NE of Medicine Bow. |
| June 2015 | Tornado (EF0) | Medicine Bow | - | A weak tornado touched down in open country eight miles east of Medicine Bow and slowly moved east. It dissipated five minutes later just west of County Road 610. No damage was reported. |
| July 2002 | Hail | Medicine Bow | - | Storm dropped large amounts of hail with sizes up to 1 1/2 inches. Heavy rain also occurred creating local areas of drifted hail as well as washing out a fewrural roads. |
| August 2002 | Hail | Medicine Bow | - | 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.
Listed places nearby
3 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Medicine Bow Union Pacific Depot | 1.1 miles | 1982 |
 | Virginian Hotel | 1.2 miles | 1978 |
 | Fossil Cabin, The | 5.8 miles | 2008 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 12000054 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.