Bates Battlefield

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Bates Battlefield was the scene of an 1874 action in which an Arapaho encampment was attacked by U.S. The battlefield is a narrow valley in Hot Springs County, Wyoming, near the junction of the Big Horn Mountains and the Owl Creek Mountains.”
Wikipedia article Bates Battlefield, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Hot Springs County · listed in 1974 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. Bates Creek, Unknown
When was it listed? November 1974
Category. site
Census division. Thermopolis East
National Register reference number. 74002286 - 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

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Bates Battlefield between 1996 and 2019, burning about 39,614 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

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
5 September 2001	Natural	529 acres	Worland Field Office	LYCITE MTN
25 August 1996	Natural	38,858 acres	Worland Field Office	BATES
21 August 2019	Natural	136 acres	Worland Field Office	BUFFALO CREEK
12 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Worland Field Office	LYSITE
1 August 2013	Natural	88 acres	Worland Field Office	HAWK
24 July 1998	Natural	3.0 acres	Rawlins Field Office	MONUMENT

Every fire recorded in Hot Springs County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Bates Battlefield: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
	Nowood River #4	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Hot Springs 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 74002286 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hot Springs County	All 12 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.