Hugus Hardware

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Hugus Hardware store, now known as Shively Hardware, is a significant commercial presence in downtown Saratoga, Wyoming. The establishment consists of two buildings.”
Wikipedia article Hugus Hardware, 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. 123 E. Bridge St., Saratoga, 82331
When was it listed? April 1984
Category. building
Census division. Saratoga
National Register reference number. 84003656 - 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 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Hugus Hardware between 1998 and 2020, burning about 59 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	1
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
16 September 1998	Natural	1.0 acres	Rawlins Field Office	DEAD OUT
3 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Carbon County	CONDICT
1 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
16 April 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	28 acres	Rawlins Field Office	MILL
25 March 2012	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Rawlins Field Office	FOUR MILE HILL
17 October 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Carbon County	MP 19

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Hugus Hardware: 4 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Saratoga Hot Springs	Geothermal	Unknown
Randy Stevens	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Seahorn Brothers Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Brook Deposit	Uranium	Occurrence
Red Hat Claims	Uranium	Prospect
Unknown	Uranium	Occurrence
Unknown	Uranium	Occurrence
Unknown	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this property

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saratoga, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Saratoga	-	The wind senor at the Saratoga Airport measured a gust of 60 mph.
June 2010	Flood	Saratoga	-	Excessive snow melt caused the North Platte river to flood the public golf course and Veteran's Island. Estimated time and duration of event.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Saratoga	-	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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Hotel Wolf	under 500 feet	1974
Saratoga Masonic Hall	under 500 feet	1978
DMJ Pick Bridge	7.0 miles	1985
Ryan Ranch	7.3 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003656 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.