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Photograph of Cunningham Cabin
Photograph by Daniel Mayer, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cunningham Cabin

Built in 1888 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The Cunningham Cabin is a double-pen log cabin in Grand Teton National Park in the US state of Wyoming. It was built as a homestead in Jackson Hole and represents an adaptation of an Appalachian building form to the West.”

Wikipedia article Cunningham Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 65 National Register listings published here for Teton County · listed in 1973 · category: District · built in 1888, rustic architecture.

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

The listing

  • Address. NE of Moose off U.S. 26/89/187 in Grand Teton National Park, Moose, 83012
  • When was it listed? October 1973
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Jackson Hole
  • When was it built? 1888
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • National Register reference number. 73000225 - 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Cunningham Cabin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 124 acres in total. 30 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
Natural30
Recreation and ceremony14
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
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
4 September 2016Natural1.5 acresGrand Teton National ParkBURNED RIDGE
29 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkPIE PLATE
21 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkELK RANCH
19 September 2011Naturalunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkSPALDING
16 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestCOAL CREEK
13 September 2001Naturalunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkCHIEF
12 September 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreBridger-Teton National ForestTRIANGLE
11 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkDWYER

Every fire recorded in Teton 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 Cunningham Cabin: 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Uranium. 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
Cowboy LodeUraniumOccurrence
UnknownGoldOccurrence
UnknownGoldOccurrence
UnknownGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Teton County

Storms near this property

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moose, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2007LightningMoose1 hurtno account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMoose$10,000Several trees were downed in a swath from the Death Canyon Trailhead east across the Moose-Wilson Road. Motorists were trapped on the road by fallen trees which were blocking passage. One vehicle was damaged near Death Canyon due to a fallen tree.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMoose-A 60 mph wind gust was reported at the weather station at the Teton Saddle.
July 2013HailMoose-Nickel sized hail was seen at Moose by a trained spotter.
August 2003WildfireMoose-no account filed
July 2002HailMoose-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Teton 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

6 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
Triangle X Barn1.1 miles1998
Snake River Land Company Residence and Office4.9 miles2006
Brinkerhoff, The5.3 miles1990
Jackson Lake Ranger Station6.4 miles1990
Hunter Hereford Ranch Historic District7.7 miles1998
Ramshorn Dude Ranch Lodge7.8 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73000225 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Teton CountyAll 65 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.