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Photograph of DML Butler Bridge
Photograph by Clayton B. Fraser, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

DML-Butler Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The DML Butler Bridge is a historic bridge over the North Platte River in Carbon County, Wyoming, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).”

Wikipedia article DML Butler Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 1985 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Cty. Rd. CN6-203, Encampment, 82331
  • When was it listed? February 1985
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Vehicular Truss and Arch Bridges in Wyoming TR
  • Census division. Saratoga
  • National Register reference number. 85000417 - 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

10 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of DML-Butler Bridge between 1996 and 2019, burning about 25 acres in total. 7 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
Natural7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Recreation and ceremony1
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
3 September 2019Fireworks3.0 acresCarbon CountyTANNERITE
23 August 2003Naturalunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandONE BAR ELEVEN
16 August 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeBAILER
11 August 2008Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeBENNETT PEAK
10 August 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeCORRAL CREEK CAMP
5 July 2013Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeBENNETT PEAK
5 July 2012Natural17 acresRawlins Field OfficeFRENCH CREEK
2 July 1996Natural4.0 acresRawlins Field OfficeBP

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of DML-Butler Bridge: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Vermiculite, Vermiculite, Corundum. 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
Baggot RocksVermiculite, CorundumPast Producer1937, 1941
Mineralwod Inc MineVermiculitePast Producer
Paine DepositVermiculite, MicaPast ProducerSericite, Vermiculite
Baggot Hills AreaMicaPast Producer
UnknownMicaPast Producer

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this property

5 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Encampment, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2002 and 2020: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 hail. 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
September 2002LightningEncampment1 killedLightning struck a tree and woman standing under it at the Pickaroon Campground inMedicine Bow National Forest.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEncampment-Reported wind damage in Savery to several outbuildings and several cottonwood trees were blown over. Time estimated off of radar.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEncampment-Peak thunderstorm wind gust measured at the Dixon Airport.
June 2019Thunderstorm WindEncampment-Wind measured by the sensor at the Dixon Airport.
April 2019HailEncampment-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

1 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
Grand Encampment Mining Region: Boston Wyoming Smelter Site8.0 miles1973

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85000417 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carbon CountyAll 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.