Photograph of Buffalo Bill - The Scout — Photograph by User:Swampyank, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Buffalo Bill Statue

Built in 1924. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Buffalo Bill - The Scout is a bronze statue of a mounted rider outside the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming, United States, that was placed in 1924 to commemorate the town's most famous resident and de facto founder, Buffalo Bill Cody. Originally in open land on the western outskirts of Cody, the statue now stands at the end of Sheridan Avenue, which became the town's main thoroughfare as Cody grew to the west.”
Wikipedia article Buffalo Bill - The Scout, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 1974 · category: Object · built in 1924.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 720 Sheridan Ave., Cody, 82414
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. object
Census division. Cody
When was it built? 1924
National Register reference number. 74002319 - 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

248 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 248 fires within 5 miles of Buffalo Bill Statue between 1992 and 2020, burning about 414 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 3 were 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	106
Recreation and ceremony	35
Debris and open burning	29
Fireworks	25
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Natural	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2

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
7 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	WILSON
7 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Worland Field Office	TRAIL CR
6 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	26 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
3 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.8 acres	Worland Field Office	NEWTON
29 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Park County	6 SCHNEIDER RD
26 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
25 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	BLESSING
25 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	WILSON

Every fire recorded in Park County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Buffalo Bill Statue: 8 unknowns, 8 occurrences, 5 producers, 5 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Sodium Sulfate. 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
Cody Deposits	Sulfur	Past Producer
Shoshone Canyon	Dolomite	Unknown
Unknown	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Unknown	Bentonite	Occurrence
Unknown	Calcium, Copper, Sulfur	Unknown
Unknown	Sodium Sulfate	Occurrence
Unknown (Holmes Lake)	Sodium Sulfate	Occurrence	Mirabilite
Spirit Mountain Uranium Company	Uranium	Unknown
Spirit Mountains	Uranium	Occurrence
Unknown	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Park County

Storms near this property

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cody, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 wildfire, 4 flash flood. The reports record 5 injuries. 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
August 2000	Lightning	Cody	5 hurt	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Cody	$35,000	no account filed
May 2015	Flash Flood	Cody	$10,000	A thunderstorm rapidly developed to the south of Cody and tracked north over the city producing heavy rain and copious amounts of small hail. Hail drifts were measured in feet in some areas with a few low spots accumulating close to six feet of hail. The hail prevented the heavy rain from draining easily and water accumulated on area roads. Several business owners in downtown Cody reported minor flooding as the water piled up in the streets, especially along Sheridan Avenue. A bakery had water on the floors and in the basement and a gift shop flooded.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Cody	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm winds blew down trees onto power lines that caused power outages to 400 customers. A maximum wind gust of 68 mph was reported at the Powell airport.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Cody	-	Wind gust to 66 mph on the mesonet station PC261 Cedar Mountain near Cody, WY.
May 2018	Hail	Cody	-	A television station forwarded a report of quarter size hail to the east of Cody.
June 2014	Hail	Cody	-	The public reported nickel sized hail on the west side of Cody.
May 2013	Hail	Cody	-	Nickel sized hail was reported by a CoCoRaHs observer on the west side of Cody.
July 2011	Hail	Cody	-	Hail to the size of quarters was observed in and near Cody.
July 2003	Wildfire	Cody	-	no account filed
August 2003	Wildfire	Cody	-	no account filed
August 2003	Wildfire	Cody	-	no account filed
September 2003	Wildfire	Cody	-	no account filed
September 2003	Wildfire	Cody	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Cody	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Cody	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Cody	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Cody	-	no account filed
June 2001	Heavy Rain	Cody	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Cody	-	no account filed
July 2001	Flash Flood	Cody	-	no account filed
May 2000	Flood	Cody	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cody	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Cody	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cody	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cody	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Cody	-	no account filed
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Cody	-	no account filed
June 1997	Flash Flood	Cody	-	no account filed
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Cody	-	no account filed
June 1997	Flash Flood	Cody	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Park 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Stock Center	0.2 miles	1976
Downtown Cody Historic District	0.3 miles	1983
Paul Stock House	0.4 miles	2000
Buffalo Bill Boyhood Home	0.4 miles	1975
Irma Hotel	0.8 miles	1973
Colter's Hell	2.3 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74002319 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Park County	All 38 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.