Old Faithful Inn

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

One of 65 National Register listings published here for Teton County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. W of West Thumb at Old Faithful on Grand Loop Rd., West Thumb, 82190
When was it listed? July 1973
Category. building
Census division. Yellowstone National Park
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. Robert Reamer
National Register reference number. 73000226 - 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 Old Faithful Inn between 1994 and 2020, burning about 4,665 acres in total. 10 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	10
Smoking	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
28 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	LONESTAR
22 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	CONE
10 September 2001	Natural	430 acres	Yellowstone National Park	LITTLE
9 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	PASS
8 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	MALLARD
8 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	DUCKLING
4 August 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	FERN
4 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	MIDWAY

Every fire 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

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
	Old Faithful Historic District	0.5 miles	1982
	Queen's Laundry Bath House	7.4 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000226 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Teton County	All 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.