BlockBefore
Photograph of City Hall
Photograph by Milonica at en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

City Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The City Hall of Rock Springs, Wyoming, located at 4th and B Sts. in Rock Springs, is a gray sandstone building that was built in 1894. It includes Richardsonian Romanesque architecture in a design by Salt Lake City architect M.D.”

Wikipedia article City Hall (Rock Springs, Wyoming), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Sweetwater 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.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. 4th and B Sts., Rock Springs, 82901
  • When was it listed? May 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Rock Springs North
  • Architectural style. Romanesque Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 80004053 - 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

160 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 160 fires within 5 miles of City Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,837 acres in total. 19 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/undetermined56
Fireworks43
Natural19
Recreation and ceremony11
Misuse of fire by a minor8
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Debris and open burning3
Firearms and explosives use2

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
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresRock Springs Field OfficePIPELINE
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSweetwater CountySPRINGS
26 September 2020Smokingunder an acreSweetwater CountyBELT LOOP
25 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSweetwater CountyCOLLEGE FIRE
24 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresRock Springs Field OfficeHORSE CORRAL
21 September 2017Misuse of fire by a minor1.0 acresSweetwater CountyMADISON DRIVE FIRE
21 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeWHITE MOUN
17 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSweetwater CountyI-80 MM107

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of City Hall: 4 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 plant, 1 producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Rock Springs Phos-Acid Plant (Facility)Phosphorus-PhosphatesPlant1986
Rock Springs Phosphoric Acid PlantPhosphorus-PhosphatesProducer1987
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
State Highway DeptSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
WylieSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Sweetwater County

Storms near this property

1 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rock Springs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1994: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 1994Thunderstorm WindRock Springs-A peak wind of 59 knots (68 mph) was clocked at the Rock Springs Airport.

Every storm recorded in Sweetwater 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

6 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
First National Bank Buildingunder 500 feet1980
Rock Springs Elks' Lodge No. 6240.1 miles1993
Our Lady Sorrows Catholic Church0.2 miles1997
Vienna Saloon0.3 miles1994
Taliaferro House0.3 miles1998
Gras House0.3 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80004053 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sweetwater CountyAll 28 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.