First National Bank Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The First National Bank Building, at 502 S. Main St. in Rock Springs, Wyoming, is a historic building built in 1917.”
Wikipedia article First National Bank Building (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. 502 S. Main St., Rock Springs, 82901
When was it listed? March 1980
Category. building
Census division. Rock Springs North
National Register reference number. 80004054 - 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

161 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 161 fires within 5 miles of First National Bank Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,764 acres in total. 17 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/undetermined	57
Fireworks	45
Natural	17
Recreation and ceremony	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Debris and open burning	3
Firearms and explosives use	2

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
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	PIPELINE
3 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sweetwater County	SPRINGS
26 September 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Sweetwater County	BELT LOOP
25 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sweetwater County	COLLEGE FIRE
24 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	HORSE CORRAL
21 September 2017	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Sweetwater County	MADISON DRIVE FIRE
21 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	WHITE MOUN
17 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sweetwater County	I-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 First National Bank Building: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Rock Springs Phos-Acid Plant (Facility)	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Plant	1986
Rock Springs Phosphoric Acid Plant	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Producer	1987
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wylie	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Rock 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
City Hall	under 500 feet	1980
Rock Springs Elks' Lodge No. 624	0.2 miles	1993
Vienna Saloon	0.2 miles	1994
Gras House	0.2 miles	1986
Our Lady Sorrows Catholic Church	0.3 miles	1997
Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church and Rectory	0.3 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80004054 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sweetwater County	All 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.