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Photograph of Fort Bonneville
Photograph by Magicpiano, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Bonneville

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Fort Bonneville is the site of a former fort along the Green River in Sublette County, Wyoming, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article Fort Bonneville, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Sublette 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. Off US 189, Pinedale, 83115
  • When was it listed? April 1970
  • Category. site
  • Census division. Pinedale
  • National Register reference number. 70000677 - 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

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Fort Bonneville between 1993 and 2018, burning about 22 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Debris and open burning2
Firearms and explosives use1
Natural1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
13 August 2006Firearms and explosives use1.6 acresPinedale Field OfficeTRACER
24 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePinedale Field OfficeMILE MARKER 112
29 June 2013Natural1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
6 May 2018Debris and open burning1.0 acresSublette CountyWAGSTAFF
16 April 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSublette CountyHORSE CREEK
11 March 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresSublette CountyKAUL
20 October 2018Equipment and vehicle use15 acresSublette CountyGRANDVIEW GRINDER
1 October 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Sublette 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 Bonneville: 6 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alexander PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
James RanchSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
North Pape PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Pape PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitsSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Wye PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Sublette County

Storms near this property

16 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pinedale, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 funnel cloud, 2 lightning, 2 hail. The reports record 1 death and 5 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2003LightningPinedale1 killed, 1 hurtno account filed
June 2001LightningPinedale4 hurtOil field workers.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindPinedale$40,200no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindPinedale$5,000Several trees were blown over, knocking out power to around 350 customers in Daniel and Pinedale. Shingles were blown off of the Museum Of The Mountain Man.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindPinedale$2,000Trees downed in Pinedale. Roof damage of some buildings at Ralph Wenz Field southeast of Pinedale.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindPinedale-A 64 mph wind gust was reported at Half Moon Lake to the northeast of Pinedale.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPinedale-Trees were reported downed at the Boyd Skinner Park.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindPinedale-A 58 mph wind gust was reported near Pinedale.
July 2011Funnel CloudPinedale-Several reports were received of a funnel cloud just east of Pinedale. The funnel was clearly visible from town.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindPinedale-no account filed
July 2005HailPinedale-no account filed
June 2004Flash FloodPinedale-no account filed
August 2002HailPinedale-no account filed
July 1997Funnel CloudPinedale-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindPinedale-no account filed
August 1996Thunderstorm WindPinedale-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sublette 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

3 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Daniel School3.7 miles1990
Father DeSmet's Prairie Mass Site5.0 miles1970
Upper Green River Rendezvous Site5.1 miles1966

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 70000677 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sublette CountyAll 20 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.