Tom Sun Ranch

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Tom Sun Ranch, also known as Sun Ranch, is a historic site along the old Oregon and Mormon trails, about 6 mi (9.7 km) west of Independence Rock, Wyoming on Wyoming Highway 220.”
Wikipedia article Tom Sun Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Sun, Tom, Ranch - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 6 mi. W of Independence Rock on WY 220, Independence Rock, 82620
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. building
National Register reference number. 66000753 - 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

12 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Tom Sun Ranch between 1995 and 2013, burning about 28 acres in total. 8 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	8
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
4 September 2002	Natural	21 acres	Rawlins Field Office	SENTINEL
29 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Casper Field Office	SWEETWATER
17 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	HWY 220 NO 1
17 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	HWY 220 NO 2
17 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	HWY 220 NO 3
17 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	HWY 220 NO 4
25 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Lander Field Office	INDEPENDENCE ROCK
14 August 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Rawlins Field Office	HANDCART

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Tom Sun Ranch: 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sodium Sulfate, Sodium, Sodium Carbonate, Halite, Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Sulfate, Salt. 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
	Morgan Deposit	Sodium Sulfate, Sodium, Sodium Carbonate, Halite	Prospect
	New York & Philadelphia Claims	Sodium Carbonate, Sodium Sulfate, Salt	Prospect

Every working recorded in Carbon 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 66000753 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.