Jim Baker Cabin

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

Sources: 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.
Listed as. Baker, Jim, Cabin - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off WY 70, Savery, 82332
When was it listed? November 1982
Category. building
Census division. Rawlins
National Register reference number. 82001830 - 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

9 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Jim Baker Cabin between 2001 and 2017, burning about 24 acres in total. 6 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
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
4 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Craig	FANROCK
6 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	HIGHWAY 70
19 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	CHAULK BLUFF
16 August 2010	Natural	1.0 acres	Rawlins Field Office	DIXON AIRPORT
30 July 2010	Natural	1.0 acres	Rawlins Field Office	READERS CEMETARY
30 July 2001	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
29 April 2012	Natural	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	DAVIS RANCH
20 April 2017	Debris and open burning	15 acres	Carbon County	BAGGS 70

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Jim Baker Cabin: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Cobb	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
	Cresent Uranium Group	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Carbon 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Stone Wall Ranch	1.6 miles	1986
	Stockgrowers Bank	4.5 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82001830 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carbon County	All 43 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.