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Ryan Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Ryan Ranch is a 2,000-acre (810 ha) ranch on the east bank of the North Platte River in Carbon County, Wyoming, about 8 miles (13 km) south of Saratoga. One of the oldest ranches in the Platte Valley of central Wyoming, it was founded by Barton T.”

Wikipedia article Ryan Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 1978 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. S of Saratoga off WY 130, Saratoga, 82331
  • When was it listed? March 1978
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Saratoga
  • National Register reference number. 78002823 - 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

5 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Ryan Ranch between 2004 and 2020, burning about 16 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/undetermined3
Natural1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 July 2004Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeELK HOLLOW
11 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCarbon County504 FIRE
11 April 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCarbon CountyCEDAR CREEK
25 March 2012Debris and open burning3.5 acresRawlins Field OfficeFOUR MILE HILL
17 October 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.0 acresCarbon CountyWEST

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Ryan Ranch: 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
BucholzSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Fee Land School Section, LeaseUraniumProspect
Snipper ClaimsUraniumProspect

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this property

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saratoga, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2013Thunderstorm WindSaratoga-The wind senor at the Saratoga Airport measured a gust of 60 mph.
June 2010FloodSaratoga-Excessive snow melt caused the North Platte river to flood the public golf course and Veteran's Island. Estimated time and duration of event.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindSaratoga-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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

3 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Hugus Hardware7.3 miles1984
Hotel Wolf7.3 miles1974
Saratoga Masonic Hall7.4 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78002823 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carbon CountyAll 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.