Clay Butte Lookout

Built in 1943. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“The Clay Butte Lookout is a forest fire lookout in Park County, Wyoming. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.”
Wikipedia article Clay Butte Lookout, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 2014 · category: Structure · built in 1943.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Approx. 1/2 mi. N. of jct. of US 212 and FS Rd. 142, Clark, 82414
When was it listed? January 2014
Category. structure
Census division. Cody
When was it built? 1943
National Register reference number. 13001065 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Clay Butte Lookout between 1992 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. 20 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	20
Recreation and ceremony	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
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 1998	Natural	under an acre	Shoshone National Forest	MUDDY CREEK
8 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shoshone National Forest	L-T OVERLOOK
27 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shoshone National Forest	TABLE MOUNTAIN
20 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Shoshone National Forest	BEARTOOTH LAKE
8 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Shoshone National Forest	MUDDY CREEK
8 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Shoshone National Forest	ISLAND LAKE
7 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Shoshone National Forest	SQUAW CREEK
7 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shoshone National Forest	LILY LAKE

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Clay Butte Lookout: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
	Angie Claims	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Park County

Storms near this property

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clark, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2010: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
July 2001	Flash Flood	Clark	$400,000	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Clark	-	One inch diameter hail fell in Clark, but no damage was reported.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Clark	-	Trained spotters estimated wind gusts of at least 60 mph near Clark.
August 2004	Hail	Clark	-	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Clark	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Clark	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Park 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 13001065 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.