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Susan Wissler House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Susan Wissler House is a historic house located at 406 Main Street in Dayton, Wyoming. The house was the home of Susan Wissler, the mayor of Dayton from 1911 to 1914; Wissler was the first female mayor in Wyoming and one of the first in the United States.”

Wikipedia article Susan Wissler House, 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.
  • Listed as. Wissler, Susan, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 406 Main St., Dayton, 82836
  • When was it listed? March 1984
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Sheridan West
  • National Register reference number. 84003703 - 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Susan Wissler House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,294 acres in total. 6 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/undetermined23
Debris and open burning10
Natural6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking1
Fireworks1

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
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBighorn National ForestSAND TURN
5 September 1995Naturalunder an acreBighorn National ForestCRYSTAL SPRINGS
25 September 1993Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
6 August 2015Naturalunder an acreBighorn National ForestCAVE
5 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
31 August 2014Debris and open burning1.0 acresWyoming State Forestry166 WOLF CREEK RD.
25 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSheridan CountyHWY345
23 August 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Susan Wissler House: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. 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
UnknownGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
UnnamedGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this property

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dayton, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 12 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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
July 2010LightningDayton1 killedno account filed
July 2025Debris FlowDayton-At least 4 debris flows within the Elk Burn Scar occurred along US-14 that closed the road for 3-4 hours. Also caused a log jam along the Little Tongue Canyon on Little Tongue Ranch, which caused localized flooding and damage to a barn. 0.7 inches of rain fell from 7 to 7:30pm.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindDayton-Downed power lines and tree damage near Dayton.
June 2018HailDayton-Quarter size hail was reported between Parkman and Dayton.
May 2011FloodDayton-Heavy rainfall in the foothills of the Big Horn Mountains resulted in high flows and localized flooding on all rivers and streams across Sheridan County. County dispatch reported Soldier Creek was out of its banks and flooding homes in Downer Addition subdivision on the west side of Sheridan.
May 2023HailDayton-no account filed
May 2023HailDayton-no account filed
June 2022HailDayton-no account filed
July 2018HailDayton-no account filed
August 2009HailDayton-no account filed
August 2009HailDayton-no account filed
August 2009HailDayton-no account filed
June 2008HailDayton-no account filed
June 2004HailDayton-no account filed
June 2004HailDayton-no account filed
July 2001HailDayton-no account filed
June 1996Thunderstorm WindDayton-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

3 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
Dayton Mercantile0.1 miles2016
Dayton Community Hall0.4 miles2005
Connor Battlefield5.4 miles1971

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84003703 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sheridan CountyAll 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.