Photograph of St. Michael's Mission — Photograph by 25or6to4, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Faith Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“Michael's Mission is an Episcopal church mission established about 1887 in Fremont County, Wyoming to minister to the Arapaho and Shoshone of the Wind River Indian Reservation. It was founded by Reverend John Roberts with the permission of Shoshone Chief Washakie.”
Wikipedia article St. Michael's Mission (Ethete, Wyoming), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Fremont County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 14 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. In Ethete, Ethete, 82520
When was it listed? June 1971
Category. building
Census division. Wind River Reservation
National Register reference number. 71000886 - 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

542 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 542 fires within 5 miles of Faith Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,247 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 12 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
Debris and open burning	283
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	67
Fireworks	52
Smoking	38
Misuse of fire by a minor	35
Recreation and ceremony	18
Natural	15
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Arson/incendiarism	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Other causes	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wind River Agency	820 ETHETE RD
9 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wind River Agency	117 17 MILE
7 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Wind River Agency	TWOSPOT
6 September 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	2.5 acres	Wind River Agency	LONE BEAR LANE
6 September 2005	Smoking	under an acre	Wind River Agency	WHITE
5 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Wind River Agency	GROVE
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	7.7 acres	Wind River Agency	PIT #2
5 September 2002	Natural	2.0 acres	Wind River Agency	SAGE CREEK

Every fire recorded in Fremont 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 Faith Hall: 3 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium, Geothermal. 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
Fort Washakie Hot Spring	Geothermal	Unknown
Wind River Indian Reservation No.1	Uranium	Occurrence
Ethete # 1	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Unknown
Ethete #2	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Unknown

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this property

4 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ethete, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2015 and 2021: 4 hail. 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
August 2021	Hail	Ethete	-	A former NWS employee reported one inch diameter hail in Ethete.
August 2018	Hail	Ethete	-	An off duty NWS employee reported nickel size hail along Highway 137 on the Wind River Reservation.
June 2017	Hail	Ethete	-	There were numerous reports of hail across the Wind River Reservation from Ethete to near around Fort Washakie. The largest report was southeast of Arapahoe where hail of quarter size was reported.
June 2015	Hail	Ethete	-	The public posted a picture on Facebook of half dollar sized hail in Ethete.

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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
	Fort Washakie Historic District	5.8 miles	1969
	Shoshone-Episcopal Mission	7.3 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000886 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fremont County	All 31 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.