Point of Rocks Stage Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“The Point of Rocks Stage Station is a former resting place at the meeting point of the Overland Trail and the Union Pacific Railroad in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, USA. It was built as a stop for the Overland Stage Line in 1861 or 1862, equidistant between the earlier Black Buttes and Salt Wells stations, which were 28 miles (45 km) apart.”
Wikipedia article Point of Rocks Stage Station State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Sweetwater 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 I-80, Rock Springs, 82901
When was it listed? April 1970
Category. site
Census division. Rock Springs South
National Register reference number. 70000679 - 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

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Point of Rocks Stage Station between 1994 and 2020, burning about 95 acres in total. 11 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	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Fireworks	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	STAGE
4 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	JELLY
3 September 2018	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Sweetwater County	138 I 80
5 August 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	15 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	BLACK BUTTES
4 August 1994	Natural	35 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	BLACK
3 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	JIM BRIDGER
27 August 2003	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	GAS WELL
27 August 2001	Natural	4.0 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	POWERLINE

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater 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 Point of Rocks Stage Station: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown	Uranium	Occurrence
State Highway Department ledge rock quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
State Highway Department ledge rock quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sweetwater County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rock Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Rock Springs	-	A peak wind of 59 knots (68 mph) was clocked at the Rock Springs Airport.

Every storm recorded in Sweetwater 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 70000679 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sweetwater County	All 28 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.