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Photograph of Hotel Higgins
Photograph by Andrew Farkas, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hotel Higgins

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Hotel Higgins, Tabor Hotel or Higgins Hotel was built in 1916-1917 during the oil boom in Glenrock, Wyoming. Higgins, who was a local rancher, legislator and oil business investor, and his wife Josephine Amoretti Higgins.”

Wikipedia article Hotel Higgins, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Converse County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 416 W. Birch, Glenrock, 82637
  • When was it listed? November 1983
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Glenrock
  • National Register reference number. 83004280 - 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

24 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Hotel Higgins between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,467 acres in total. 9 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Natural9
Equipment and vehicle use2
Debris and open burning1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
21 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.6 acresConverse CountyMAGEE
20 September 2019Naturalunder an acreConverse CountyRUSTY ROAD FIRE
10 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.9 acresCasper Field OfficePARKERTON
9 August 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresCasper Field OfficeMM 160
5 August 2019Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresConverse CountyMM157.5
30 August 2005Railroad operations and maintenance3,030 acresCasper Field OfficeBIXBY
3 August 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreConverse CountyMILLER ROAD
28 August 2020Naturalunder an acreConverse CountyMM10 HWY 95 #2

Every fire recorded in Converse County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Hotel Higgins: 7 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Titanium, Coal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Glenrock No. 2Titanium, CoalPast Producer
Open Pit Sections 28 and 33UraniumProducer
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
Abbott Sand & Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Brubaker PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Forbis PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Irvine PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Thatcher and Sons IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Valentine PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Converse County

Storms near this property

24 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenrock, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 17 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1997HailGlenrock$2,000A few golfball size hailstones accompanied a large amount of pea size stones.
August 1997HailGlenrock$2,000no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGlenrock-Multiple WYDOT observations near the Converse/Natrona County line recorded thunderstorm wind gusts 55-65 MPH.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGlenrock-WYDOT mesonet station Deer Creek (KDRC) along Interstate 25 measured maximum wind gust.
July 2023HailGlenrock-From Glenrock Police Department. Hail ranged from quarters to half dollar size.
July 2023HailGlenrock-Twitter picture with a lot of hail stones. Largest were quarter size.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGlenrock-WYDOT mesonet station KDRC - Deer Creek along I-25 reported wind gust.
June 2018HailGlenrock-Ping pong ball size hail was observed south of Glenrock.
July 2018HailGlenrock-Hail was reported along Interstate 25 at mile marker 169 near Glenrock.
June 2017HailGlenrock-Quarter size hail was observed a mile southwest of Glenrock.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGlenrock-Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph were reported at Glenrock.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGlenrock-An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was reported at Glenrock.
July 2015HailGlenrock-Golf ball size hail was observed five miles west-southwest of Glenrock.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindGlenrock-Wind gusts of 60 mph were observed at Glenrock.
May 2008HailGlenrock-A severe thunderstorm produced hail from 3/4 to 1 inch in diameter in the vicinity of Glenrock, Wyoming.
September 1999Tornado (F0)Glenrock-2 Tornadoes reported by officer 5 miles northwest of Rolling Hills, WY
June 1999HailGlenrock-1 inch hail reported 20 miles northeast of Glenrock, WY
May 2007HailGlenrock-no account filed
July 2006HailGlenrock-no account filed
August 2005HailGlenrock-no account filed
May 2004HailGlenrock-no account filed
June 2001HailGlenrock-no account filed
July 2001HailGlenrock-no account filed
May 1999HailGlenrock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Converse 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

1 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Commerce Blockunder 500 feet2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83004280 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Converse CountyAll 19 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.