Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“The George Ferris Mansion in Rawlins, Wyoming is one of the most significant Queen Anne style buildings in Wyoming. Built during 1899-1903, the house's design was published by the Knoxville, Tennessee architectural firm of Barber and Klutz in an architectural pattern book.”
Wikipedia article George Ferris Mansion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
Architect. Barber & Klutz
National Register reference number.82001831- 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
75 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 75 fires within 5 miles of George Ferris Mansion
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 307 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
22
Fireworks
13
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Natural
7
Railroad operations and maintenance
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Debris and open burning
5
Recreation and ceremony
2
Arson/incendiarism
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Smoking
2
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
20 workings within 5 miles of George Ferris Mansion: 16 unknowns, 2 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Uranium, Stone, Limestone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Rawlins, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1994 and 2021: 11 thunderstorm wind, 11 hail, 2 tornado, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 4 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.
A motorcycle rider was hit by lightning as he was riding west on Interstate 80. He was struck in the back of the neck and the strike caused him to lose control of his mototcycle and crash into the median. The motorcyclist recieved a ruptured eardrum and burns to his eyes, chest and shoulder. The victim was taken to the hospital for treatment and released.
Brief landspout tornado was observed with photos disseminated by Carbon County Emergency Manager south of Rawlins. According to reports by the public via social media, landspout tornado remained over open areas with no discernable damage to rank only as EFU. Given limited evidence, specific location, width, length and timing are all estimates.
A thunderstorm in northern Carbon County produced a funnel cloud and hailstones up to one inch in diameter. No damage was reported as a result of the hail.
A slow moving tornado was reported by the public 13 miles north of Rawlins. No damage occurred and the path length and width were estimated. The Rawlins airport recorded a wind gust of 67 mph from a thunderstorm. No damage was reported at the airport.
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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