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One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 1973 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article
Grand Encampment Mining Region: Ferris-Haggarty Mine Site
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
The listing
- Address. W of Encampment, Encampment
- When was it listed? July 1973
- Category. site
- Census division. Saratoga
- National Register reference number. 73001928 - 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
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Grand Encampment Mining Region: Ferris-Haggarty Mine Site between 1996 and 2020, burning about 120 acres in total. 6 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 | 6 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | BABY |
| 2 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | MILL CREEK |
| 1 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | BATTLE CREEK |
| 5 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | BATTLE LAKE |
| 6 July 1996 | Natural | 1.8 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | UNIT 38 |
| 28 July 2009 | Natural | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | SMITH CREEK |
| 22 July 2013 | Natural | 103 acres | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | WEST BATTLE CREEK |
| 15 July 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland | 443 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 18 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Grand Encampment Mining Region: Ferris-Haggarty Mine Site: 7 prospects, 6 occurrences, 4 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Uranium, Gold, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creede Prospect | Copper, Iron, Nickel, Cobalt | Occurrence | Magnetite, Pyrrhotite, Chalcopyrite | |
| Doane-Rambler Mine (including Rex Mine) | Silver, Gold, Copper, Cobalt, Uranium | Past Producer | stratabound | |
| Ferris-Haggarty Mine | Copper, Silver, Gold, Uranium | Past Producer | 1897 | |
| Island City Group Prospect | Copper, Silver, Gold, Iron | Prospect | Copper, Pyrrhotite | |
| Unknown | Gemstone | Occurrence | ||
| Unknown Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Unknown | ||
| Dreamland King Group | Copper, Gold | Occurrence | Azurite, Malachite, Gold | |
| Hawkeye | Iron, Gold | Past Producer | Vein | |
| Octavia Prospect | Copper, Iron | Prospect | Calcite, Pyrite, Chalcopyrite | |
| Spring Creek Prospect | Gold | Occurrence | Gold |
Storms near this property
5 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Encampment, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2002 | Lightning | Encampment | 1 killed | Lightning struck a tree and woman standing under it at the Pickaroon Campground inMedicine Bow National Forest. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Encampment | - | Reported wind damage in Savery to several outbuildings and several cottonwood trees were blown over. Time estimated off of radar. |
| June 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Encampment | - | Peak thunderstorm wind gust measured at the Dixon Airport. |
| June 2019 | Thunderstorm Wind | Encampment | - | Wind measured by the sensor at the Dixon Airport. |
| April 2019 | Hail | Encampment | - | no account filed |
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jack Creek Guard Station | 6.2 miles | 1986 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 73001928 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| Carbon County | All 43 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.