Cheyenne-Black Hills Stage Route and Rawhide Buttes and Running Water Stage Stations

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

From the record

“The Rawhide Buttes Stage Station, the Running Water Stage Station and the Cheyenne-Black Hills Stage Route comprise a historic district that commemorates the stagecoach route between Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Deadwood, South Dakota, United States. The route operated beginning in 1876, during the height of the Black Hills Gold Rush, and was replaced in 1887 by a railroad.”
Wikipedia article Cheyenne-Black Hills Stage Route and Rawhide Buttes and Running Water Stage Stations, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Goshen 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 listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1 mi. W to about 15 mi. SW of Lusk, Lusk, 82219
When was it listed? April 1969
Category. district
Census division. Rawhide Creek
National Register reference number. 69000190 - 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

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Cheyenne-Black Hills Stage Route and Rawhide Buttes and Running Water Stage Stations between 1996 and 2015, burning about 494 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
Natural	3
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
9 August 2003	Natural	235 acres	Casper Field Office	RAWHIDE
27 August 2015	Natural	2.7 acres	Casper Field Office	SILVER SPRINGS
8 July 2001	Natural	6.0 acres	Casper Field Office	ORD RANCH
1 April 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	90 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
1 April 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	160 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Goshen County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Cheyenne-Black Hills Stage Route and Rawhide Buttes and Running Water Stage Stations: 21 occurrences, 4 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Uranium, Graphite, Barium-Barite. 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	Marble, Dimension	Occurrence
Unknown	Copper	Unknown
Gold Hill Mine	Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Omaha Mine	Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Omaha and Gold Hill Copper Prospect	Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Omaha and Gold Hill Copper Prospect	Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Unknonw	Graphite	Occurrence
Unknown	Graphite	Occurrence
Unknown	Graphite	Occurrence
Unknown	Graphite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Goshen 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 69000190 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Goshen County	All 7 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.