Photograph of Dale Creek Crossing — Photograph by Williams, Henry T. or unknown artist, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dale Creek Crossing (48AB145)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Dale Creek Crossing was a railway bridge located in present-day Wyoming. The 650-foot (200 m) bridge, completed in 1868 in the southeastern Wyoming Territory, presented engineers of the United States' first transcontinental railroad one of their most difficult challenges.”
Wikipedia article Dale Creek Crossing, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Albany County · listed in 1986 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 4 mi. W of Sherman, Ames Monument, 82070
When was it listed? May 1986
Category. site
Census division. South Albany
Architect. Union Pacific Railroad
National Register reference number. 86001027 - 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

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Dale Creek Crossing (48AB145) between 1992 and 2016, burning about 157 acres in total. 1 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	5
Natural	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Smoking	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
1 August 2000	Natural	151 acres	Casper Field Office	GILBERT LK
4 July 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	PYRAMID
28 April 2007	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Rawlins Field Office	DALE CREEK RR
13 December 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
18 November 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	CHEROKEE PARK RD
15 November 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	MM 329
15 November 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
14 November 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Dale Creek Crossing (48AB145): 3 past producers, 3 unknowns, 2 prospects, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Feldspar, Uranium, Garnet, 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
Copper Float Group (Tie Siding)	Copper	Prospect
Unknown	Copper	Occurrence	Contact Metasomatic
Tie Siding Area	Feldspar, Garnet	Past Producer
Tie Siding Area	Feldspar, Garnet	Past Producer
Tie Siding Area	Feldspar, Garnet	Past Producer
Copper Float Group	Uranium	Unknown
Hermosa Prospect	Feldspar	Prospect
Tie Siding Feldspar Pegmatite #1	Uranium	Unknown
Tie Siding Feldspar Pegmatite #2	Uranium	Unknown
Unknown	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working 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

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Ames Monument (NHL)	3.5 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001027 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.