Lamar Buffalo Ranch

Built in 1907 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Lamar Buffalo Ranch is a historic livestock ranch in the Lamar River valley of Yellowstone National Park, in the U.S. state of Wyoming. As an early contribution to the conservation of bison, it was created to preserve one of the last free-roaming American bison (buffalo) herds in the United States.”
Wikipedia article Lamar Buffalo Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 1982 · category: District · built in 1907, rustic architecture, by National Park Service.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. E of Mammoth Hot Springs on Northeast Entrance Rd., Mammoth Hot Springs, 82190
When was it listed? December 1982
Category. district
Also known as. Yellowstone National Park MPS
Census division. Yellowstone National Park
When was it built? 1907
Architectural style. rustic architecture
Architect. National Park Service
National Register reference number. 82001835 - 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

26 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Lamar Buffalo Ranch between 1992 and 2016, burning about 421 acres in total. 22 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	22
Recreation and ceremony	3
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 2016	Natural	1.0 acres	Yellowstone National Park	JASPER
14 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	LAMAR
1 September 1998	Natural	2.0 acres	Yellowstone National Park	AMETHYST
9 August 2013	Natural	205 acres	Yellowstone National Park	DRUID
4 August 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	ASH
4 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	SPECIMEN
4 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	AMETHYST
30 August 2009	Natural	180 acres	Yellowstone National Park	BUTTE

Every fire recorded in Park 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 82001835 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Park County	All 38 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.