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Photograph of Jay Em Historic District
Photograph by Andrew Farkas, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Jay Em Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Jay Em Historic District comprises the abandoned center of the village of Jay Em, Wyoming. The town was planned and established by Lake Harris between 1912 and 1915 as a service town supporting ranchers in the surrounding area.”

Wikipedia article Jay Em Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Goshen County · listed in 1984 · category: District.

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 8 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Main St., Jay Em, 82219
  • When was it listed? April 1984
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Rawhide Creek
  • National Register reference number. 84003665 - 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

3 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Jay Em Historic District between 1992 and 1996, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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/undetermined3

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
1 April 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
29 February 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
1 October 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Goshen 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 Jay Em Historic District: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. 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
UnknownUraniumOccurrence

Every working recorded in Goshen County

Storms near this property

36 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jay Em, the town this property stands in, in 36 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 33 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash flood, 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 2025HailJay Em-Emergency Manager found hail of quarter sized still on the side of the Highway 85 at mile marker 129.
July 2023HailJay Em-Public reported 1 inch hail north of Jay Em.
July 2022HailJay Em-Tennis ball sized hail was reported in Jay Em. Hail went through the wind shield of a vehicle.
July 2021HailJay Em-Hail ripped paint off of the observer's home and destroyed their garden plants.
May 2018Flash FloodJay Em-The bridge at Harris Ranch Road, west of Highway 85 was washed out due to heavy rains and washed away debris striking the structure. A vehicle tried to drive around the washed out bridge and became stuck in a ditch.
June 2016HailJay Em-Quarter size hail was reported 13 miles west of Jay Em.
May 2016HailJay Em-Quarter size hail was reported near Rawhide Buttes.
July 2016HailJay Em-Quarter size hail was reported at Jay Em.
June 2015HailJay Em-Quarter size hail was observed nine miles west-northwest of Jay Em.
September 2014Heavy RainJay Em-An observer 13 miles northeast of Guernsey measured 2.2 inches of rain.
June 2013HailJay Em-Pea to quarter size hail was reported near Rawhide Buttes.
August 2013HailJay Em-Quarter to half dollar size hail was reported south of Jay Em.
July 2011HailJay Em-Tennis ball size hail was reported a few miles north of Jay Em.
May 2010HailJay Em-Ground white with nickle size hail. Estimated location of report. Event occurred between 1130MST and 1200MST.
May 2000HailJay Em-Hail from 1 inch to 1 3/4 inch fell at times during a period of about 25 minutes.
July 1994HailJay Em-A line of severe thunderstorms moved through southern Niobrara County and into northern Goshen County. Golf ball-sized hail was reported at both Lusk and Jay Em, while a roof was blown off a barn 30 miles north of Torrington.
May 2023HailJay Em-no account filed
June 2022HailJay Em-no account filed
July 2021HailJay Em-no account filed
July 2020HailJay Em-no account filed
July 2019HailJay Em-no account filed
July 2019Thunderstorm WindJay Em-no account filed
August 2019HailJay Em-no account filed
September 2019HailJay Em-no account filed
September 2019HailJay Em-no account filed
June 2010HailJay Em-no account filed
May 2006HailJay Em-no account filed
July 2004HailJay Em-no account filed
April 2003HailJay Em-no account filed
May 2000HailJay Em-no account filed
May 2000HailJay Em-no account filed
May 2000HailJay Em-no account filed
May 2000HailJay Em-no account filed
September 1999HailJay Em-no account filed
June 1997HailJay Em-no account filed
June 1997HailJay Em-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Goshen 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 84003665 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Goshen CountyAll 7 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.