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Dereemer Ranch Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Dereemer Ranch Historic District, near Horse Creek, Wyoming, is a 18 acres (7.3 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The listing included seven contributing buildings.”

Wikipedia article Dereemer Ranch Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Laramie County · listed in 1983 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. E of Horse Creek, Horse Creek, 82061
  • When was it listed? November 1983
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Cheyenne West
  • National Register reference number. 83004290 - 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

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Dereemer Ranch Historic District between 2008 and 2016, burning about 190 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
5 August 2008Natural1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
16 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined189 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Laramie County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Dereemer Ranch Historic District: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, Dimension. 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
Horse Creek QuarryLimestone, DimensionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Laramie County

Storms near this property

26 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Horse Creek, the town this property stands in, in 26 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 17 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 tornado, 1 heavy rain. 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
July 1995HailHorse Creek$1,000Large hail feel in and near Horse Creek. The hail injured a horse and broke all exterior lights on a house. The hail piled up to 6 to 8 inches deep in the one-half mile wide path.
June 2023HailHorse Creek-Quarter sized hail was reported by an NWS Employee approximately 5 miles NNE of Whitaker.
August 2018Flash FloodHorse Creek-Observer measured one inch of rainfall in short time and only had one accessible road off of property as the others have become washed out.
June 2018Tornado (EF0)Horse Creek-Small tornado sighted half a mile west of Interstate 25 at mile marker 34.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindHorse Creek-Estimated wind gusts of 65 mph were reported at Horse Creek.
July 2016HailHorse Creek-Marble to ping pong ball size hail was reported at Horse Creek.
July 2016HailHorse Creek-Half dollar size hail was reported on Interstate 25 24 miles north of Cheyenne.
June 2015HailHorse Creek-Ping pong ball size hail was observed 12 miles south-southeast of Horse Creek.
June 2015HailHorse Creek-Quarter size hail was observed one mile southeast of Horse Creek.
May 2014Thunderstorm WindHorse Creek-Wind gusts were estimated near 60 mph at Horse Creek.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHorse Creek-Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph were observed in Horse Creek.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindHorse Creek-Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph were reported six miles west of Whitaker on County Road 228.
July 2014HailHorse Creek-Quarter size hail was observed at Horse Creek.
September 2014Heavy RainHorse Creek-A spotter measured 1.79 inches of rain.
June 2013Thunderstorm WindHorse Creek-A wind gust of 77 mph was measured 12 miles south-southeast of Horse Creek.
July 2010Tornado (EF0)Horse Creek-Public reported tornado on ground.
July 2010HailHorse Creek-Hail covered ground.
June 1999HailHorse Creek-1 3/4 inch,but mostly smaller, size hail fell 3 miles north of Horse Creek, WY
July 2019HailHorse Creek-no account filed
July 2018HailHorse Creek-no account filed
May 2010HailHorse Creek-no account filed
May 2004HailHorse Creek-no account filed
August 2002HailHorse Creek-no account filed
May 2000HailHorse Creek-no account filed
July 2000HailHorse Creek-no account filed
May 1998HailHorse Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Laramie 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 83004290 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Laramie CountyAll 60 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.