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Atlantic City Mercantile

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Atlantic City Mercantile is a former store now used as a bar and restaurant in Atlantic City, Wyoming. It is one of the chief buildings in the small mining town in the South Pass area of Wyoming, and is a significant example of a late 19th-century commercial building on what had recently been the frontier.”

Wikipedia article Atlantic City Mercantile, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Fremont County · listed in 1985 · 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. Rt. 62, Box 260, Atlantic City, 82520
  • When was it listed? April 1985
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Lander
  • National Register reference number. 85000869 - 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

39 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Atlantic City Mercantile between 1994 and 2020, burning about 27 acres in total. 13 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
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Recreation and ceremony10
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Fireworks1
Smoking1

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
4 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreShoshone National ForestBEAVER CREEK
27 September 2010Recreation and ceremony2.1 acresLander Field OfficeMARY ANN
27 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.3 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
25 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreShoshone National ForestWILLOW
2 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLander Field OfficeATLANTIC
19 September 2014Natural1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
19 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLander Field OfficeROCK CREEK
13 September 1997Naturalunder an acreShoshone National ForestSLATE CREEK

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Atlantic City Mercantile: 19 past producers, 6 occurrences, 2 producers, 2 prospects. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sulfur-Pyrite, Arsenic, Iron. 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
Atlantic City DistrictGold, TungstenPast ProducerGold, Scheelite
Carissa MineGold, Arsenic, NickelPast Producer1850
Copper Chief Gold MineGold, GarnetOccurrence
Duncan MineGold, SilverPast Producer
May and Jump ClaimsCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Mechanic &Emerald LodeSulfur-Pyrite, CopperOccurrence
Miners Delight MineGold, GraphitePast ProducerGold
Rock Creek PlacersGold, Silver, Copper, Platinum, MicaProducerStream Placer
Sixty Seven Mile Pit BlmSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
South Pass MinesTungstenOccurrenceScheelite

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this property

5 since 2023

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Atlantic City, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2023 and 2026: 5 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
April 2026Thunderstorm WindAtlantic City-A maximum wind gust of 83 mph was reported along Red Canyon along Highway 28.
May 2025Thunderstorm WindAtlantic City-Wind gusts as high as 75 mph occurred at Red Canyon along Highway 28.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindAtlantic City-Wind gusts as high as 65 mph occurred at Red Canyon along Wyoming 28 over South Pass.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindAtlantic City-Wind gusts as high as 80 mph occurred in Red Canyon along Highway 28 in South Pass.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindAtlantic City-A second round of thunderstorms moved across southern Fremont County and brought a second round a high wind. The highest wind gust occurred at Beaver Rim along South Pass where a maximum wind gust of 89 mph.

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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

4 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
Carpenter Hotel Historic District0.5 miles2012
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church0.7 miles2023
Hamilton City4.0 miles1980
South Pass City4.0 miles1970

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85000869 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fremont CountyAll 31 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.