Dorr Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“The Dorr Ranch was established by William and Mabel Dorr in 1910 in Converse County, Wyoming along Woody Creek. William had left home at the age of 8 or 9 and worked for the 71 Quarter Ranch and as a horse wrangler at Pony Express stations in Wyoming.”
Wikipedia article Dorr Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Converse County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Approx. 5 mi. NE. of Woody Creek & Steinle Rds., Bill
When was it listed? December 2014
Category. district
Census division. Douglas
National Register reference number. 14001080 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

24 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Dorr Ranch between 1995 and 2020, burning about 2,637 acres in total. 17 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	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	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 2010	Railroad operations and maintenance	2,007 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
4 September 2010	Natural	23 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	BROWNER DRAW FIRE
4 September 1995	Natural	8.0 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	WOODY CREEK #1
7 August 2010	Smoking	3.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
31 August 2012	Natural	55 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	CACTUS FIRE
27 August 2001	Natural	1.0 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	WOODY CREEK #3
27 August 2001	Natural	2.0 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	WOODY CREEK #2
23 August 2006	Natural	12 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	DRY FORK

Every fire recorded in Converse 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 Dorr Ranch: 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
	Unknown	Uranium	Occurrence	Stratabound

Every working recorded in Converse County

Storms near this property

55 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bill, the town this property stands in, in 55 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 43 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 tornado, 2 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
March 2019	Flash Flood	Bill	$10,000	An earthen dam near the Fiddle Back Ranch failed causing the release of water that washed out the nearby intersection of Dull Center and Lynch Road. The released water eventually made it downstream into the Cheyenne River causing the level to rise to the top of the river bank.
July 1998	Hail	Bill	$4,000	A storm produced golfball size hail 7 miles east of Bill.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Bill	-	Upper Missouri River Basin Station at Bill 8NE recorded severe wind gust.
June 2023	Hail	Bill	-	Half-dollar sized hail was reported by a trained spotter located approximately 10 miles north of Bill.
July 2023	Hail	Bill	-	Public reported golfball sized hail in and around Bill.
July 2023	Hail	Bill	-	Social media report of 1 inch hail and damage to trees, plants and a broken window.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Bill	-	Spotter estimated 50 to 60 mph wind gusts.
June 2023	Hail	Bill	-	The public measured hail up to 2.5 inches in diameter 16 miles SSE of Bill.
June 2023	Hail	Bill	-	The public measured hail up to 2.5 inches in diameter 12 miles SSE of Bill.
August 2022	Hail	Bill	-	Received video on social media of ping pong to golf ball size hail with accumulating hail along State Highway 59 south of Bill.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Bill	-	RAWS station RHKW4 - Rochelle Hills reported wind gust.
June 2019	Tornado (EF0)	Bill	-	Wyoming State Highway Patrol reported tornado on the outskirts of Bill with corresponding video confirmation of a visible condensation funnel east of the hotel in town. A later report via social media presented photographic evidence of tornadic damage to a manufactured home east-southeast of Bill with a corner of the roof peeled off consistent with EF-0 damage.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Bill	-	Observer noted dime size hail and heavy rainfall.
July 2018	Hail	Bill	-	Heavy rains associated with the storm flooded basement along with hail breaking two windows.
July 2018	Hail	Bill	-	Quarter size hail was observed northeast of Bill.
June 2016	Hail	Bill	-	Quarter size hail was reported at Bill.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Bill	-	Estimated 65 mph wind gusts were reported at Bill.
July 2016	Hail	Bill	-	Quarter size hail was reported a mile east of Dull Center.
July 2015	Hail	Bill	-	Quarter size hail was observed ten miles east of Bill.
August 2015	Hail	Bill	-	Quarter size hail was observed 15 miles west of Bill.
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Bill	-	Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph were observed 15 miles west of Bill.
August 2015	Hail	Bill	-	Half dollar size hail was reported 33 miles west-northwest of Bill.
June 2015	Hail	Bill	-	Quarter size hail was observed at Dull Center.
June 2015	Hail	Bill	-	Ping pong ball size hail was observed 25 miles west-northwest of Bill.
June 2015	Hail	Bill	-	Half dollar to ping pong ball size hail was reported 15 miles west of Bill.
June 2014	Hail	Bill	-	Quarter size hail was observed northeast of Bill.
July 2014	Hail	Bill	-	Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported west of Bill.
July 2014	Hail	Bill	-	Ping pong ball size hail was reported west of Bill.
July 2014	Hail	Bill	-	Golf ball size hail was reported in Bill and east of Bill.
May 2014	Hail	Bill	-	Penny to quarter size hail was reported north of Bill.
July 2013	Hail	Bill	-	Ping pong ball to baseball size hail was reported just east of Bill.
July 2013	Hail	Bill	-	Marble to quarter size hail was reported 25 miles west-northwest of Bill.
July 2013	Hail	Bill	-	Dime to quarter size hail was reported west of Bill.
August 2013	Flash Flood	Bill	-	Water and debris were flowing across Highway 59 north of Bill.
June 2012	Hail	Bill	-	Penny to quarter sized hail was observed.
June 2012	Hail	Bill	-	Dime to quarter sized hail was reported.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Bill	-	A collapsing thunderstorm produced a wind gust of 61 mph at Bill.
July 2011	Hail	Bill	-	Quarter to ping pong ball size hail was observed.
June 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Bill	-	Estimated path length and width due to no storm survey being conducted. No damage was reported.
May 2010	Hail	Bill	-	Hail of 1 inch in diameter fell with this storm.
June 1999	Tornado (F0)	Bill	-	Tornado reported 10 miles west of Bill, WY
July 2020	Hail	Bill	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Bill	-	no account filed
June 2019	Hail	Bill	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Bill	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Bill	-	no account filed
July 2011	Hail	Bill	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Bill	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Bill	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Bill	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Bill	-	no account filed
August 2005	Hail	Bill	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Bill	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Bill	-	no account filed
August 1996	Hail	Bill	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Converse 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 14001080 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Converse County	All 19 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.