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Photograph of Menor's Ferry
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Menor's Ferry

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

From the record

“Menor's Ferry was a river ferry that crossed the Snake River near the present-day Moose, Wyoming, United States. The site was homesteaded by Bill Menor in 1892-94, choosing a location where the river flowed in a single channel, rather than the braided stream that characterizes its course in most of Jackson Hole.”

Wikipedia article Menor's Ferry, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 65 National Register listings published here for Teton County · listed in 1969 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Across Snake River just above park headquarters, Grand Teton National Park, Moose, 83001
  • When was it listed? April 1969
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Jackson Hole
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • National Register reference number. 69000016 - 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Menor's Ferry between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,123 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 2 were 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
Natural40
Recreation and ceremony9
Power generation/transmission/distribution6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Debris and open burning2
Fireworks1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
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
8 September 1998Arson/incendiarism340 acresGrand Teton National ParkHAYFIELDS
7 September 2013Naturalunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestCARPENTER
6 September 2013Naturalunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkPRONGHORN
3 September 1992Naturalunder an acreNational Elk RefugeSNAKE RIVR
21 September 2003Natural1.0 acresGrand Teton National ParkW. TAGGART
14 September 2006Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkPOWERLINE
9 August 2001Naturalunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkSCIENCE SC
6 August 2016Naturalunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkAIRPORT

Every fire recorded in Teton 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 Menor's Ferry: 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Kelly Slide AreaUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Teton County

Storms near this property

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moose, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2007LightningMoose1 hurtno account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMoose$10,000Several trees were downed in a swath from the Death Canyon Trailhead east across the Moose-Wilson Road. Motorists were trapped on the road by fallen trees which were blocking passage. One vehicle was damaged near Death Canyon due to a fallen tree.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMoose-A 60 mph wind gust was reported at the weather station at the Teton Saddle.
July 2013HailMoose-Nickel sized hail was seen at Moose by a trained spotter.
August 2003WildfireMoose-no account filed
July 2002HailMoose-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Teton 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Chapel of the Transfiguration0.3 miles1980
Moose Entrance Kiosk0.6 miles1990
4 Lazy F Dude Ranch0.7 miles1990
Murie Ranch Historic District1.1 miles1998
Murie Residence1.1 miles1990
Andy Chambers Ranch Historic District2.3 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 69000016 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Teton CountyAll 65 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.