Como Bluff

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Como Bluff is a long ridge extending east-west, located between the towns of Rock River and Medicine Bow, Wyoming. The ridge is an anticline, formed as a result of compressional geological folding.”
Wikipedia article Como Bluff, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 1973 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. On U.S. 30, along Como Ridge, Rock River--Medicine Bow
When was it listed? January 1973
Category. district
Census division. Rock River
National Register reference number. 73001925 - 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

2 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Como Bluff in 2018, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
29 September 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	MILE MARKER 278 POINT 5
28 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	ROBBERS ROOST

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Como Bluff: 5 prospects, 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bentonite, Clay. 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	Recorded
Cassa Mining Co.Claims	Clay	Prospect
Como Bluffs	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence
Como Ridge	Bentonite	Prospect
Heward	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Prospect
Airborne Anomaly #36-19	Uranium	Prospect
Airborne Anomaly #56-20	Uranium	Occurrence
Rock Creek	Uranium	Occurrence	Jarosite, Wulfenite
Unknown	Uranium	Occurrence	Jarosite, Wulfenite
Unnamed	Uranium	Prospect

Every working recorded in Albany 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 73001925 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Albany County	All 42 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.