Divide Sheep Camp

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Divide Sheep Camp, also known as Niland's Cabins, is a ranch site on the Little Snake River in Carbon County, Wyoming, near Baggs. The camp was established in 1909 for summer use by sheepmen of the Niland-Tierney Sheep Company and others in the Little Snake valley.”
Wikipedia article Divide Sheep Camp, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 1984 · 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 3 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. NE of Baggs, Baggs, 82332
When was it listed? February 1984
Category. building
Census division. Rawlins
National Register reference number. 84003635 - 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

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Divide Sheep Camp between 2002 and 2017, burning about 1,817 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
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Natural	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
26 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Rawlins Field Office	SAVERY CR
2 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	CAMPER TRAILER FIRE
18 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	TRAILER
30 August 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	MP 42, HWY 789
24 August 2012	Natural	14 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	SANDSTONE CREEK
6 October 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,800 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	DEEP GULCH RX ESCAPE

Every fire recorded in Carbon 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 Divide Sheep Camp: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
	Batchelder Mine	Copper	Prospect	Underground

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this property

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baggs, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Baggs	-	no account filed

Every storm 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003635 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.
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.