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Spear-O-Wigwam Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

“The Spear-O-Wigwam Ranch is a former dude ranch, now a campus of Sheridan College, Wyoming, the Spear-O-Wigwam Mountain Campus. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.”

Wikipedia article Spear-O-Wigwam Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 2016 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

11 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Spear-O-Wigwam Ranch between 1996 and 2019, burning about 3 acres in total. 3 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
Natural3
Recreation and ceremony3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreBighorn National ForestPARK RESERVIOR
30 September 2019Other causesunder an acreBighorn National ForestRANGER CREEK
2 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
19 September 2019Naturalunder an acreBighorn National ForestCROSS CREEK
6 August 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBighorn National ForestFALLS
5 August 1996Smokingunder an acreBighorn National ForestLAST CHANCE
16 August 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBighorn National ForestBEAVER
14 August 2012Naturalunder an acreBighorn National ForestEAST FORK

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Spear-O-Wigwam Ranch: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Copper, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
East Fork, Big Goose Creek MineSilver, Gold, CopperPast ProducerCopper, Gold, Silver
UnknownStoneOccurrence
UnknownBentoniteProspect
UnnamedGoldPast Producer

Every working recorded in Johnson 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 16000053 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Johnson CountyAll 22 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.