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Photograph of Odd Fellows Hall
Photograph by Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Odd Fellows Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Odd Fellows Hall, also known as Big Horn Odd Fellows Hall, is located in Big Horn, Wyoming, and was built in 1894. The hall was originally used by Big Horn's chapter of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and was later used by the Odd Fellows' sister organization, the Rebekahs.”

Wikipedia article Odd Fellows Hall (Big Horn, Wyoming), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Sheridan County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Jackson St., Big Horn, 82833
  • When was it listed? December 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Sheridan South
  • National Register reference number. 80004052 - 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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Odd Fellows Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 119 acres in total. 2 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use4
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural2
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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
29 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
18 September 2017Debris and open burning1.0 acresSheridan CountyUPPER ROAD
17 September 2017Debris and open burning5.0 acresSheridan CountyBISHER FIRE
8 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.7 acresBuffalo Field OfficeMILE MARKER 28
7 August 2006Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
31 August 2003Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
3 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
25 August 2020Naturalunder an acreSheridan CountyKRUSE CREEK

Every fire recorded in Sheridan 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 Odd Fellows Hall: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
UnknownUraniumPast Producer

Every working recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this property

16 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Big Horn, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2018Thunderstorm WindBig Horn-There were reports of many Cottonwood trees down with some on homes.
June 2015Flash FloodBig Horn-A heavy, slow-moving thunderstorm resulted in flash flooding to portions of western Sheridan County. Highway 14 had water flowing across it at mile marker 84 1/2 resulting in the highway being closed.
July 2011Thunderstorm WindBig Horn-Numerous tree limbs were broken.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindBig Horn-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph resulted in large branches being broken off during a 20 minute period.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindBig Horn-no account filed
July 2023HailBig Horn-no account filed
July 2022Thunderstorm WindBig Horn-no account filed
July 2019HailBig Horn-no account filed
July 2019HailBig Horn-no account filed
July 2019HailBig Horn-no account filed
July 2018HailBig Horn-no account filed
May 2018HailBig Horn-no account filed
August 2015HailBig Horn-no account filed
May 2013HailBig Horn-no account filed
July 2008HailBig Horn-no account filed
June 2008HailBig Horn-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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

5 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
Johnson Street Historic Districtunder 500 feet1984
Quarter Circle A Ranch2.9 miles1976
Sheridan Flouring Mills, Inc.7.0 miles1997
Mount View7.9 miles1997
Robinson-Smith House8.0 miles2016

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80004052 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sheridan CountyAll 29 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.