Woods Landing Dance Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Woods Landing Dance Hall was built in 1927 by Hokum Lestum for Mayme and Clarence Lewellen near Woods Landing, Wyoming. The site had previously been the Woods Landing Saloon, established by Colonel Samuel Wood in 1883.”
Wikipedia article Woods Landing Dance Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Albany 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. 2731 WY 230, Woods Landing, 82063
When was it listed? December 1985
Category. building
Census division. South Albany
National Register reference number. 85003210 - 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

27 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Woods Landing Dance Hall between 1994 and 2018, burning about 12,023 acres in total. 15 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
Natural	15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
20 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	HIGHWAY 10
2 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	LITTLE
11 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	not named
1 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Rawlins Field Office	WOODSLANDI
6 August 2001	Natural	2.0 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	BOOGER
4 August 1994	Natural	3.0 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	not named
17 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	JELM CREEK
17 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	JELM

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Woods Landing Dance Hall: 6 occurrences, 4 prospects, 4 past producers, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Gold, Copper, Iron, Copper. 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	Recorded
Colorado Mine	Gold, Copper, Iron, Lead, Silver	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Copper, Galena, Silver
Jelm Mountain	Copper, Gold, Bismuth	Prospect	contact vein
Jelm Mountain District	Copper, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Bismuth, Molybdenum	Past Producer	1870
Lake Owen Complex	Iron, Titanium, Metal, Silver, Cobalt, Nickel, PGE, Gold, Copper, Vanadium	Occurrence	Magnetite, Ilmenite
Unknown	Niobium (Columbium)	Prospect
Unknown	Manganese	Prospect
Annie Mine	Gold, Copper	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Gold
Unidentified Occurrence	Iron	Occurrence	Magnetite
Unidentified Prospect	Copper	Occurrence	Copper
Unidentified Prospect	Copper	Occurrence	Copper

Every working recorded in Albany County

Storms near this property

5 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Woods Landing, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2013 and 2021: 5 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 2021	Flash Flood	Woods Landing	-	Heavy rainfall over portions of the Mullen Burn Scar with estimated rainfall of two to three inches. Subsequent mudslide and debris flow led to a road washout near Highway 230. The Woods Landing Resort also had nearby stream rise out of its bank with water on area campgrounds and a few inches of water were reported in the resort kitchen.
July 2018	Flash Flood	Woods Landing	-	Excessive rainfall in 60 minutes over the Badger Creek burn scar caused debris flow/flash flooding along the Laramie River at Jelm/Woods Landing.
July 2018	Flash Flood	Woods Landing	-	Locally heavy rain in less than 30 minutes over the Badger Creek burn scar led to mud and debris flows across Highway 230 near Woods Landing.
May 2014	Flash Flood	Woods Landing	-	Flash flooding washed out Back River Road and Boswell Ranch Road near Woods Landing.
September 2013	Flash Flood	Woods Landing	-	Two to three inches of rain in a 90-minute period flooded Highway 311/47. Several area streams in central and southern portions of the Squirrel Creek burn scar were running bankfull.

Every storm recorded in Albany 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
	Jelm-Frank Smith Ranch Historic District	3.5 miles	1978
	N. K. Boswell Ranch	6.6 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85003210 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Albany County	All 42 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.