Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church and Rectory

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

“Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church and Rectory, also known as North Side Church, is a historic church in Rock Springs, Wyoming. The Roman Catholic church was established by Slavic immigrants who found the established Catholic church in Rock Springs to be dominated by Irish parishioners and clergy, and who wished to have a church more closely aligned to their traditions.”
Wikipedia article Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church and Rectory, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Sweetwater County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 633 Bridger Ave., Rock Springs, 82901
When was it listed? December 2015
Category. building
Census division. Rock Springs North
Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 15000929 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

168 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 168 fires within 5 miles of Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church and Rectory between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,776 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	60
Fireworks	48
Natural	17
Recreation and ceremony	11
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Debris and open burning	3
Firearms and explosives use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2

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
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	PIPELINE
3 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sweetwater County	SPRINGS
26 September 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Sweetwater County	BELT LOOP
25 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sweetwater County	COLLEGE FIRE
24 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	HORSE CORRAL
21 September 2017	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Sweetwater County	MADISON DRIVE FIRE
21 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	WHITE MOUN
17 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sweetwater County	I-80 MM107

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church and Rectory: 5 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Rock Springs Phos-Acid Plant (Facility)	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Plant	1986
Rock Springs Phosphoric Acid Plant	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Producer	1987
State Highway Department Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wylie	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Sweetwater County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rock Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Rock Springs	-	A peak wind of 59 knots (68 mph) was clocked at the Rock Springs Airport.

Every storm recorded in Sweetwater 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.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Slovenski Dom	under 500 feet	1997
Gras House	under 500 feet	1986
Vienna Saloon	0.1 miles	1994
First National Bank Building	0.3 miles	1980
City Hall	0.4 miles	1980
Rock Springs Elks' Lodge No. 624	0.5 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000929 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sweetwater County	All 28 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.