Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.
From the record
“Boswell Ranch is one of the oldest ranches on the edge of the Laramie Plains along the Big Laramie River in Albany County, Wyoming, USA. The ranch was established in the early 1870s, possibly by a man named C.T.”
Wikipedia article N.K. Boswell Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 42 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.77001381- 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
19 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 19 fires within 5 miles of N. K. Boswell Ranch
between 1994 and 2017, burning about 100 acres in total. 11 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
11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Recreation and ceremony
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Smoking
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
9 September 1994
Natural
2.0 acres
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
not named
20 September 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Rawlins Field Office
HIGHWAY 10
2 September 2001
Smoking
under an acre
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
LITTLE
6 August 2001
Natural
2.0 acres
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
BOOGER
4 August 1994
Natural
3.0 acres
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
not named
30 August 2008
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5.0 acres
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
SHELLROCK
17 August 2016
Natural
under an acre
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
JELM CREEK
9 July 2007
Natural
1.0 acres
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of N. K. Boswell Ranch: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect, 1 unknown.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Uranium, Calcium, Iron, Lead, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Woods Landing, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 5 flash flood.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.
Heavy rainfall over portions of the Mullen Burn Scar with estimated rainfall of two to three inches. Subsequent mudslide and debris flow led to a road washout near Highway 230. The Woods Landing Resort also had nearby stream rise out of its bank with water on area campgrounds and a few inches of water were reported in the resort kitchen.
Two to three inches of rain in a 90-minute period flooded Highway 311/47. Several area streams in central and southern portions of the Squirrel Creek burn scar were running bankfull.
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
2 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.
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.
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