Johnson Street Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Johnson Street Historic District, in Big Horn, Wyoming, is a 1.9 acres (0.77 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The listing included five contributing buildings.”
Wikipedia article Johnson Street Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Sheridan 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

Address. Johnson, 1st, and 2nd Sts., Big Horn, 82833
When was it listed? April 1984
Category. district
Census division. Sheridan South
National Register reference number. 84003701 - 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

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Johnson Street Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 119 acres in total. 2 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	24
Debris and open burning	13
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
29 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
18 September 2017	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Sheridan County	UPPER ROAD
17 September 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Sheridan County	BISHER FIRE
8 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.7 acres	Buffalo Field Office	MILE MARKER 28
7 August 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
31 August 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
3 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
25 August 2020	Natural	under an acre	Sheridan County	KRUSE CREEK

Every fire recorded in Sheridan 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 Johnson Street Historic District: 1 past producer. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Unknown	Uranium	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this property

16 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Big Horn, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 2008 and 2024: 10 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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	Big Horn	-	There were reports of many Cottonwood trees down with some on homes.
June 2015	Flash Flood	Big Horn	-	A heavy, slow-moving thunderstorm resulted in flash flooding to portions of western Sheridan County. Highway 14 had water flowing across it at mile marker 84 1/2 resulting in the highway being closed.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Horn	-	Numerous tree limbs were broken.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Horn	-	Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph resulted in large branches being broken off during a 20 minute period.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Horn	-	no account filed
July 2023	Hail	Big Horn	-	no account filed
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Horn	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Big Horn	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Big Horn	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Big Horn	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Big Horn	-	no account filed
May 2018	Hail	Big Horn	-	no account filed
August 2015	Hail	Big Horn	-	no account filed
May 2013	Hail	Big Horn	-	no account filed
July 2008	Hail	Big Horn	-	no account filed
June 2008	Hail	Big Horn	-	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.

Listed places nearby

6 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
Odd Fellows Hall	under 500 feet	1980
Quarter Circle A Ranch	3.0 miles	1976
Sheridan Flouring Mills, Inc.	6.9 miles	1997
Mount View	7.8 miles	1997
Robinson-Smith House	7.9 miles	2016
Stephen George Homestead	8.0 miles	2023

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84003701 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.
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.