Fort Bridger

Built in 1928. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.

From the record

“Fort Bridger was originally a 19th-century fur trading outpost established in 1842, on Blacks Fork of the Green River, in what is now Uinta County, Wyoming, United States and was then part of Mexico. It became a vital resupply point for wagon trains on the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails.”
Wikipedia article Fort Bridger, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Uinta County · listed in 1969 · category: Site · built in 1928.

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 13 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. On Black's Fork of Green River, near the town of Fort Bridger, Fort Bridger, 82933
When was it listed? April 1969
Category. site
Census division. Bridger Valley
When was it built? 1928
National Register reference number. 69000197 - 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

47 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Fort Bridger between 2002 and 2020, burning about 131 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	13
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Natural	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	1
Fireworks	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 September 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Uinta County	COUNTY SHOP FIRE
4 September 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	Kemmerer Field Office	FLAT
3 September 2018	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Uinta County	38 I80 EAST
2 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Uinta County	WALL RESERVOIR
1 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kemmerer Field Office	FORT BRIDGER
4 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.5 acres	Kemmerer Field Office	SCOOP SHOVEL
31 August 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Uinta County	TRUCK STOP 34
30 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Uinta County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Fort Bridger: 4 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Bluemel and Fraughton	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Uinta 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Black and Orange Cabins	0.2 miles	2020
	ERT Bridge over Black's Fork	1.0 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 69000197 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Uinta County	All 13 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.