Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“The Centennial Depot, also known as the Nici Self Historical Museum, was built in 1907 for the Laramie, Hahns Peak and Pacific Railway in Centennial, Wyoming, United States. In addition to railroad services, the depot housed a post office and, at times, a grocery store.”
Wikipedia article Centennial Depot, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 42 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82001828- 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
44 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Centennial Depot
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 13 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony
19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10
Natural
7
Debris and open burning
5
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
Smoking
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 1992
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
not named
5 September 1995
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
COOLIDGE
5 September 1993
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
not named
4 September 2001
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
NORTH FORK TRL #2
3 September 2002
Natural
2.0 acres
Wyoming State Forestry
not named
2 September 2002
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.5 acres
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
LIBBY LOOP
29 August 1992
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
not named
28 August 2011
Natural
under an acre
Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
19 workings within 5 miles of Centennial Depot: 13 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Platinum, Silver, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Centennial, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1999 and 2021: 1 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 2 deaths. 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.
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.
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.
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