Dull Knife Battlefield

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Dull Knife Battlefield is located on the eastern slope of the Bighorn Mountains in Johnson County, Wyoming near Kaycee. It was the scene of the Dull Knife Fight on November 25, 1876, in which the Fourth Cavalry under General Ranald S.”
Wikipedia article Dull Knife Battlefield, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Johnson County · listed in 1979 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. N of Barnum, Barnum, 82639
When was it listed? August 1979
Category. site
Census division. Kaycee
National Register reference number. 79002609 - 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Dull Knife Battlefield between 1992 and 2019, burning about 393 acres in total. 31 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	31
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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 2003	Natural	under an acre	Buffalo Field Office	GARDNER
8 September 1998	Natural	176 acres	Casper Field Office	GARDNER MT
7 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Casper Field Office	CURUTCHET
3 September 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Buffalo Field Office	LITTLE ANT
10 September 2009	Natural	2.0 acres	Buffalo Field Office	DEEP WELL
9 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Buffalo Field Office	BOX ELDER RIDGE
9 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Buffalo Field Office	BARNUM 1
9 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Buffalo Field Office	EAGLES RST

Every fire recorded in Johnson 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 Dull Knife Battlefield: 1 unknown. 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
	Red Fork # 2	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Unknown

Every working recorded in Johnson County

Storms near this property

17 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Barnum, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 7 hail, 5 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2023	Flash Flood	Barnum	-	See episode for a description.
September 2023	Flash Flood	Barnum	-	Reports to Sheriffs office of minor flooding across some of the dirt roads in southwestern portions of Johnson county.
June 2023	Hail	Barnum	-	A supercell thunderstorm developed in the lee of the Bighorn range and brought large hail from Barnum to Kaycee. Hail the size of baseballs fell near Barnum with quarter size hail reported in Kaycee.
June 2022	Hail	Barnum	-	A trained spotter reported quarter size hail near Barnum, WY.
May 2019	Flood	Barnum	-	NCRS employees reported minor to moderate flooding along the Middle Fork of the Powder River downstream from Barnum. The flooding remained over rural areas and caused no damage.
July 2019	Hail	Barnum	-	A strong thunderstorm dropped penny sized hail in the vicinity of Barnum.
June 2017	Hail	Barnum	-	A thunderstorm developed along the east side of the Bighorn Range and slowly strengthened. The storm became a supercell and dropped very large hail from Barnum to Kaycee. There were widespread reports of quarter size or bigger hail along the path. The largest report of hail was tennis ball size 5 miles southwest of Kaycee, not far from where a tornado developed. Hail up to the size of ping pong balls was reported in Barnum.
September 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Barnum	-	The Poker Creek RAWS site registered a wind gust to 59 mph.
July 2013	Flash Flood	Barnum	-	Heavy rain fell in and around Barnum producing minor flash flooding. Some mud and debris was deposited by the flood on Barnum Road, which was removed by a county grading crew. Beaver Creek overflowed its banks and flooded a few ranch fields. The inundation of water caused a five foot rise in about two hours on the Middle Fork of the Powder River.
July 2013	Hail	Barnum	-	Penny sized hail was reported at a ranch south of Barnum.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Barnum	-	Wind gusts estimated at 75 to 80 mph blew down several trees along the Bar C Ranch Road from Barnum to the Bar C Ranch.
July 2011	Flash Flood	Barnum	-	The public reported 1.9 of rain at the Blue Creek Ranch near Barnum. The creek was out of its banks and flooding property at the ranch. The creek was reportedly carrying a significant amount of debris out of a nearby canyon.
June 2010	Hail	Barnum	-	One inch diameter hail was reported with a severe thunderstorm that formed along the southeast Bighorn Mountains.
June 2009	Funnel Cloud	Barnum	-	Members of a Washakie County Road and Bridge crew observed a funnel cloud over the Big Horn Mountains west of Barnum. The crew was working near Cherry Creek Road in southeast Washakie County and observed the storm from the west.
June 2023	Flood	Barnum	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Barnum	-	no account filed
June 1997	Flash Flood	Barnum	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Johnson 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 79002609 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Johnson County	All 22 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.