Steele Homestead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Steele Homestead is a historic homestead located along Wyoming Highway 191 northeast of Boulder, Wyoming. The homestead was established in 1886 by Ed P.”
Wikipedia article Steele Homestead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Sublette 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

Address. WY 191, Boulder, 82923
When was it listed? April 1985
Category. building
Census division. Boulder
National Register reference number. 85000870 - 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Steele Homestead between 1994 and 2020, burning about 83 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	7
Natural	2
Debris and open burning	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
4 August 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	STOKES CRE
18 August 1996	Natural	15 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	BOULDER
17 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	BUSTER
1 July 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
30 June 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.3 acres	Rock Springs Field Office	DITCH
25 June 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sublette County	353
21 April 2020	Debris and open burning	50 acres	Sublette County	GRABEL
17 April 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.7 acres	Pinedale Field Office	FISH

Every fire recorded in Sublette County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Steele Homestead: 2 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Fremont Butte	Uranium	Unknown
John Paul No. 5	Uranium	Occurrence
Unknown	Uranium	Occurrence
Unknown	Uranium	Unknown

Every working recorded in Sublette County

Storms near this property

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boulder, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2018: 4 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2018	Hail	Boulder	-	A trained spotter reported nickel size hail to the east of Boulder.
March 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Boulder	-	Measured wind gust on home weather station.
July 2005	Hail	Boulder	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Boulder	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Boulder	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sublette 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	DDZ Bridge over New Fork River	5.4 miles	1985
	New Fork	6.0 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000870 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sublette County	All 20 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.