Rock Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Rock Church of Auburn, Wyoming is a historic church building that has served also as a community center. Also known as Latter Day Saints Auburn Ward Meeting House, it is located in the public square at Second W and First S Sts. in Auburn.”
Wikipedia article Rock Church (Auburn, Wyoming), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Lincoln 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Second W and First S Sts., Auburn, 83111
When was it listed? December 1985
Category. building
Census division. Afton
National Register reference number. 85003222 - 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

16 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Rock Church between 2006 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning	6
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Fireworks	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
18 August 2020	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Lincoln County	238
14 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
14 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Bridger-Teton National Forest	GROVER
25 July 2020	Railroad operations and maintenance	2.0 acres	Lincoln County	MILE 85
13 July 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Lincoln County	HAY FIRE
4 June 2019	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Falls District	TOMS CANYON
28 June 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	Lincoln County	144 SESIONS LANE
6 May 2019	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Lincoln County	SHAW

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Rock Church: 5 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Bromine, Salt, Salt, Sulfur, Geothermal. 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
Auburn Area Hot Springs	Sulfur, Geothermal	Occurrence	hot springs deposit
Salt Deposit	Salt	Unknown
McGrew Spring	Bromine, Salt	Past Producer
Petersen Spring	Bromine, Salt	Past Producer
Reed Springs	Bromine, Salt	Past Producer
Call Gravel Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Auburn, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2000 and 2023: 3 hail, 1 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
May 2023	Flood	Auburn	-	Minor impacts from flooding confined to low lying areas near the river. No damage was reported to transportation infrastructure or property. Maximum flow of around 3500 CFS occurred from May 25 through May 26 at the Salt River near Etna river gauge.
August 2011	Hail	Auburn	-	Approximately 600 acres of a mature grain crop near Auburn were severely damaged by one inch diameter hail.
August 2000	Hail	Auburn	-	no account filed
August 2000	Hail	Auburn	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85003222 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln County	All 9 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.