BlockFrom the record
One of 16 National Register listings published here for Big Horn County · listed in 1975 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Bridger Immigrant Road-Dry Creek Crossing
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 26 mi. E of Cody on U.S. 14, Cody, 82411
- When was it listed? January 1975
- Category. site
- Census division. Central Big Horn
- National Register reference number. 75001900 - 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 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Bridger Immigrant Road-Dry Creek Crossing between 2000 and 2020, burning about 158 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 40 acres | Wind River / Bighorn Basin District | BIG WINDY |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Wind River / Bighorn Basin District | COYOTE |
| 7 September 2020 | Smoking | 50 acres | Bighorn County | GRASS FIRE |
| 4 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Bighorn County | B HILL BARROW DITCH FIRE |
| 3 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 acres | Cody Field Office | SUPRISE |
| 29 August 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Worland Field Office | WYDOT |
| 8 July 2018 | Natural | 5.0 acres | Bighorn County | EMBLEM BENCH LIGHTNING STRIKE |
| 31 July 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 39 acres | Wyoming State Forestry | not named |
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 75001900 in Record Group 79. |
| Big Horn County | All 16 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.