Clearmont Jail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Clearmont Jail is a historic jail located on Water Street in Clearmont, Wyoming. The jail was built in 1922, three years after Clearmont's incorporation, to address the growing crime problem in the town.”
Wikipedia article Clearmont Jail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Sheridan 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. Water St., Clearmont, 82835
When was it listed? May 1984
Category. building
Census division. Sheridan
National Register reference number. 84003698 - 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

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Clearmont Jail between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,412 acres in total. 5 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	10
Natural	5

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
28 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
28 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
8 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Sheridan County	MICHELENA GRASS FIRE
8 August 2006	Natural	536 acres	Buffalo Field Office	FOSTER SHERIDAN RANC
28 August 2020	Natural	500 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	LEITER FIRE
15 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	200 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
15 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
14 August 2009	Natural	3.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this property

15 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clearmont, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 2001 and 2019: 11 hail, 3 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
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Clearmont	-	Some trees fell onto power lines in Clearmont.
February 2012	Flood	Clearmont	-	Periods of steady rain falling onto frozen ground resulted in some minor flooding during the afternoon and early evening hours on the 22nd. Flooding of low lying areas, as well as creeks and streams was reported across Eastern Sheridan County including Buffalo Creek near Leiter. Stream gages on Wild Horse Creek near Arvada showed a steep rise of over 3 feet from noon into the early evening hours. In addition, a few basements and a county road were flooded north of Leiter.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Clearmont	-	An estimated wind gust of 65 mph was reported 3 miles southeast of Clearmont.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Clearmont	-	Wind damage. 3.5 foot diameter tree blown down near Ucross.
August 2019	Hail	Clearmont	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Clearmont	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Clearmont	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Clearmont	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Clearmont	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Clearmont	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Clearmont	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Clearmont	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Clearmont	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Clearmont	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Clearmont	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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 84003698 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sheridan County	All 29 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.
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.