Photograph of Fort Fred Steele State Historic Site — Photograph by JERRYE & ROY KLOTZ MD, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Steele

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

From the record

“Fort Steele, also known as Fort Fred Steele, was established to protect the newly built Union Pacific Railroad from attacks by Native Americans during construction of the transcontinental railroad in the United States. The fort was built in 1868 where the railroad crossed the North Platte River in Carbon County, Wyoming.”
Wikipedia article Fort Fred Steele State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 1969 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. On North Platte River at point of Union Pacific RR. crossing, Fort Fred Steele, 82334
When was it listed? April 1969
Category. site
Census division. Rawlins
National Register reference number. 69000185 - 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

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Fort Steele between 1993 and 2020, burning about 89 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
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
6 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	STEEL FIRE
5 September 1993	Natural	3.0 acres	Rawlins Field Office	SET BRAKE
29 September 2006	Smoking	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	SAINT MARYS CREEK
18 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	SHEENING PENS
5 August 1994	Railroad operations and maintenance	60 acres	Rawlins Field Office	RR#2
2 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	SAINT MARYS
5 July 1997	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Rawlins Field Office	RAILROAD#1
4 July 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Carbon County	FORT STEELE

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Fort Steele: 10 unknowns, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sand. 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
Unknown Sandpit	Sand	Unknown
Fort Steele Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ft. Steele Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rawlins Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rawlins Sand and Gravel B.L.M. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

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 69000185 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.