Fort Reno

Built in 1865. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Fort Reno also known as Fort Connor or Old Fort Reno, was a wooden fort established on August 15, 1865, by the United States Army in Dakota Territory in present-day Johnson County, Wyoming. The fort was built to protect travelers on the Bozeman Trail from Native American tribes.”
Wikipedia article Fort Reno (Wyoming), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 1970 · category: Site · built in 1865.

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

The listing

Address. E of Sussex on Powder River, Sussex, 82639
When was it listed? April 1970
Category. site
Census division. Kaycee
When was it built? 1865
National Register reference number. 70000672 - 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 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Fort Reno between 1992 and 2020, burning about 641 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	3

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
24 August 1997	Natural	6.0 acres	Casper Field Office	EAST RENO
19 August 1999	Natural	534 acres	Casper Field Office	LOW SUSSEX
1 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
5 July 2020	Natural	1.0 acres	Johnson County	PALMER RESERVIOR
2 October 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
2 October 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	100 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Johnson County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fort Reno: 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, 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	Recorded
Skiles-Reno Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Loc. 90	Uranium	Occurrence	Stratabound
Unknown	Uranium	Occurrence
Unknown	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this property

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sussex, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 11 hail, 4 funnel cloud, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
May 2015	Flood	Sussex	$5,000	A flood wave moved north down the Powder River as a result of heavy rain over the Memorial Day Weekend. For the most part, impacts were confined to low lying land nearest the river. However, there was flooding of some infrastructure near the Interstate 90 Powder River bridge in eastern Johnson County.
June 2014	Hail	Sussex	$5,000	Golf ball sized and larger hail fell at a ranch east of Kaycee along State Highway 192. The largest stones were 3 inches in diameter. The large hail broke windows and screens, cracked a few windshields, and caused minor damage to ranch buildings.
May 2016	Hail	Sussex	-	The public reported half dollar sized hail at a rural ranch near the Powder River north of Sussex in far eastern Johnson County.
June 2015	Funnel Cloud	Sussex	-	A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud between Kaycee and Sussex.
June 2014	Hail	Sussex	-	Hail up to one inch in diameter was observed at a ranch east of Kaycee.
May 2013	Hail	Sussex	-	Three-quarter inch diameter hail fell at a ranch near Sussex.
May 2013	Hail	Sussex	-	Nickel sized hail was observed at a ranch near Sussex.
June 2008	Hail	Sussex	-	Hail of nickel to quarter size fell near Sussex for 15 minutes.
June 2002	Hail	Sussex	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Sussex	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Sussex	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Sussex	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Sussex	-	no account filed
July 2001	Funnel Cloud	Sussex	-	no account filed
July 1998	Funnel Cloud	Sussex	-	no account filed
June 1998	Funnel Cloud	Sussex	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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

1 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
	Cantonment Reno	3.1 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000672 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Johnson County	All 22 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.