Photograph of Bridger Pass — Photograph by Ericshawwhite, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Bridger's Pass

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Bridger Pass is a mountain pass in Carbon County, Wyoming on the Continental Divide of the Americas near the south Great Divide Basin bifurcation point, i.e., the point at which the divide appears to split and envelop the basin.”
Wikipedia article Bridger Pass, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 1970 · category: Site.

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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. SW of Rawlins, Rawlins, 82301
When was it listed? April 1970
Category. site
Census division. Rawlins
National Register reference number. 70000669 - 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

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Bridger's Pass between 1995 and 2018, burning about 44 acres in total. 4 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
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	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
11 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	3.5 acres	Rawlins Field Office	8 MILE LK
11 September 1996	Arson/incendiarism	1.5 acres	Rawlins Field Office	HATFIELD
15 August 2018	Natural	26 acres	Rawlins Field Office	20 MILE
10 August 2016	Natural	12 acres	Rawlins Field Office	JEP
19 July 1995	Natural	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	OLSON DRAW
18 July 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	BRIDGER PASS

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this property

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rawlins, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 11 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood. The reports record 4 injuries. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Rawlins	3 hurt, $50,000	Strong thunderstorm wind gust rolled a mobile home 3 times in Echo Springs, resulting in 3 injuries.
June 1998	Lightning	Rawlins	1 hurt	A motorcycle rider was hit by lightning as he was riding west on Interstate 80. He was struck in the back of the neck and the strike caused him to lose control of his mototcycle and crash into the median. The motorcyclist recieved a ruptured eardrum and burns to his eyes, chest and shoulder. The victim was taken to the hospital for treatment and released.
May 2021	Tornado (EFU)	Rawlins	-	Brief landspout tornado was observed with photos disseminated by Carbon County Emergency Manager south of Rawlins. According to reports by the public via social media, landspout tornado remained over open areas with no discernable damage to rank only as EFU. Given limited evidence, specific location, width, length and timing are all estimates.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Rawlins	-	RAWS site at Cow Creek in southwestern Carbon County measured the reported wind speed.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Rawlins	-	RAWS mesonet station COWW4 - Cow Creek reported gust 21 miles north-northeast of Baggs.
April 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Rawlins	-	Winds measured at the Cow Creek site.
September 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Rawlins	-	Wind speeds were measured by the sensor at Rawlins Municipal Airport.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Rawlins	-	Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph were observed southwest of Rawlins.
June 2010	Hail	Rawlins	-	Water standing in yard due to heavy rain. Estimated time of report.
July 2008	Hail	Rawlins	-	Nickel to half dollar sized hail reported in the vicinity of Rawlins, WY.
August 1997	Tornado (F0)	Rawlins	-	Touched down in open country causing no damage.
May 1995	Hail	Rawlins	-	A thunderstorm in northern Carbon County produced a funnel cloud and hailstones up to one inch in diameter. No damage was reported as a result of the hail.
May 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Rawlins	-	A slow moving tornado was reported by the public 13 miles north of Rawlins. No damage occurred and the path length and width were estimated. The Rawlins airport recorded a wind gust of 67 mph from a thunderstorm. No damage was reported at the airport.
June 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Rawlins	-	The airport in Rawlins measured a wind gust of 65 mph as a thunderstorm passed through. No damage was reported from the winds.
May 2021	Hail	Rawlins	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Rawlins	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Rawlins	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Rawlins	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Rawlins	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Rawlins	-	no account filed
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Rawlins	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Rawlins	-	no account filed
April 2001	Hail	Rawlins	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Rawlins	-	no account filed
May 1996	Flash Flood	Rawlins	-	no account filed
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Rawlins	-	no account filed

Every storm 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 70000669 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.
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.