Rosencrans Cabin Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 65 National Register listings published here for Teton County · listed in 1980 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 9 mi. E of Moran, Moran, 83013
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. district
Census division. Jackson Hole
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 80004056 - 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

54 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of Rosencrans Cabin Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 27 started naturally. 6 were 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	27
Recreation and ceremony	13
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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
7 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Bridger-Teton National Forest	BOX CREEK
21 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bridger-Teton National Forest	RANDOLPH
19 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bridger-Teton National Forest	BOX CREEK
9 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Bridger-Teton National Forest	WALLACE
9 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Bridger-Teton National Forest	LAVA
8 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Bridger-Teton National Forest	SKULL
6 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Bridger-Teton National Forest	CLEAR
5 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Bridger-Teton National Forest	ROCK

Every fire recorded in Teton 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 Rosencrans Cabin Historic District: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Unidentified Gold Occurrence	Gold	Occurrence	Gold
Unknown	Gold	Occurrence
Unknown	Gold	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Teton County

Storms near this property

7 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moran, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2002 and 2022: 4 hail, 2 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 death and 6 injuries. 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
August 2022	Lightning	Moran	1 killed, 1 hurt	On Tuesday evening, August 2, 2022 lightning struck a group of backpackers camped at Enos Lake in the Teton Wilderness. One person, a 22-year-old male, died in the incident, while another, an adult male, sustained major injuries. The lightning bolt reportedly hit the backpackers at camp. The men were part of a group of 14 adults on an organized wilderness trip. This information is directly from a Teton County Search and Rescue press release describing the event.
June 2002	Lightning	Moran	5 hurt	no account filed
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Moran	$15,000	A collapsing thunderstorm produced damaging outflow wind. Several large trees and power poles were blown down, especially in the area of Colter Bay and Pilgrim Creek in Grand Teton National Park. Several interior service roads in the park were temporarily blocked by downed trees. Large plate-glass windows were blown out in the Mural Room of Jackson Lake Lodge but no injuries were reported.
August 2009	Hail	Moran	-	Hail to the size of nickels was reported at Signal Mountain Lodge.
August 2009	Hail	Moran	-	Nickel sized hail and wind gusts approaching 50 mph were reported at the Signal Mountain Marina.
July 2002	Hail	Moran	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Moran	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Teton 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 80004056 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Teton County	All 65 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.