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Photograph of First State Bank of Baggs
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

First State Bank of Baggs

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The First State Bank of Baggs, also known as the Bank Club, is a building in Baggs, Wyoming, USA. Built in 1907-08 to house a bank, it is one of the relatively few original buildings left in Baggs.”

Wikipedia article First State Bank of Baggs, 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 10 S. Miles St., Baggs, 82321
  • When was it listed? September 1984
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Rawlins
  • National Register reference number. 84003644 - 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

25 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of First State Bank of Baggs between 1994 and 2020, burning about 687 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/undetermined10
Natural9
Firearms and explosives use1
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresCarbon CountyDAD
8 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresCarbon CountyMILEPOST 24 WY. 789
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresCarbon CountyDUNCAN RANCH
4 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRawlins Field Office5MILE PT
24 August 2013Naturalunder an acreNorthwest District, CraigHEDGES
19 August 2017Firearms and explosives use281 acresNorthwest District, CraigPOLE
19 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined200 acresCarbon CountyUNKNOWN
1 August 2020Natural16 acresMoffat CountySTATELINE

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of First State Bank of Baggs: 6 unknowns, 4 past producers, 3 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Gold, Silver. 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
Rock Springs Placer Co. MineGold, SilverPast Producer1891, 1892
Snake River placersGoldOccurrence
Pit #1UraniumPast Producer
Pit #11UraniumPast Producer
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
UnknownUraniumOccurrence
UnknownUraniumUnknown
Corson WilsonSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2005Thunderstorm WindBaggs-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.

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
Stockgrowers Bank6.4 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84003644 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carbon CountyAll 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.