Vee Bar Ranch Lodge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Vee Bar Ranch Lodge was built in 1891 as the home of Lionel C.G. The ranch was later owned by Luther Filmore, a Union Pacific Railroad official, and the Wright family, who operated the ranch as a dude ranch.”
Wikipedia article Vee Bar Ranch Lodge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

Address. 2087 WY 130, Laramie, 82070
When was it listed? June 1986
Category. building
Census division. South Albany
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 86001468 - 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

14 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Vee Bar Ranch Lodge between 1993 and 2019, burning about 221 acres in total. 6 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	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
23 August 2019	Natural	10 acres	Albany County	SILVERADO ROAD
17 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	BOWFIDDLE
17 July 2005	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	SHEEPSKIN
10 July 1997	Natural	4.0 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	SHEEP MTN
10 July 1997	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	HILL
1 July 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
7 June 2006	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	POINT
15 June 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Vee Bar Ranch Lodge: 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Titanium-Heavy Minerals, Iron, Thorium, Zirconium, Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Crescent Lode No 1	Uranium	Prospect
	Sheep Mountain	Titanium-Heavy Minerals, Iron, Thorium, Zirconium	Occurrence	Fossil beach placer

Every working recorded in Albany County

Storms near this property

60 of 95 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laramie, the town this property stands in, in 95 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 51 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 6 tornado, 6 funnel cloud. 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 2001	Hail	Laramie	$50,000	no account filed
May 1996	Tornado (F0)	Laramie	$50,000	no account filed
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Laramie	$25,000	Microburst winds resulted in several downed trees, some onto homes, in Laramie, WY.
October 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Laramie	$20,000	no account filed
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Laramie	$10,000	Emergency Management reported downed power lines with power loss in Laramie and Univ of Wyoming. Strongest wind gusts were estimated.
August 2001	Hail	Laramie	$10,000	Hail cracked windshields east of Laramie, WY.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Laramie	$4,000	Thunderstorms produced wind gusts up to 70 mph in Laramie, which downed two power poles on the southeast side of town.
June 1996	Lightning	Laramie	$4,000	no account filed
July 1996	Lightning	Laramie	$2,000	no account filed
July 1994	Hail	Laramie	$500	no account filed
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Laramie	-	Corrects previous non-tstm wnd gst report from 7 E Laramie. Mesonet station PC236 Pilot Hill.
June 2025	Tornado (EF1)	Laramie	-	Multiple spotters reported a tornado. \|A thunderstorm approached the ridges just east of Laramie, \|producing a funnel cloud near I-80 and ultimately a tornado. \|The tornado produced a swath of pine tree damage near \|Pilot Hill, including uprooted and snapped trees. The heaviest \|damage occurred along the Pilot Hill connector trail. Photos of \|damage estimate the maximum path width of nearly one-quarter mile,\|while radar and storm reports were also used for path length.
June 2025	Hail	Laramie	-	Accumulating quarter sized hail on the east side of Laramie. Report received via Facebook.
June 2025	Hail	Laramie	-	Photos of hail next to measuring tape. Location estimated based on radar.
May 2023	Tornado (EFU)	Laramie	-	In the late morning hours of Thursday, 18 May, 2023,\|a semi-sustained updraft was able to maximize the local near-surface\|vorticity of a low-topped thunderstorm in Laramie Valley north of\|the town of Laramie. As a result, several funnel clouds occurred near\|11:20am to 11:25am MDT. Funnel pictures were initially elevated and\|horizontal in nature. Additional pictures and several videos then showed\|clear evidence of a more vertical circulation taking place. This vertical\|circulation was able to connect with the ground per evidence of a\|large dust circulation from several videos and pictures. Approximate\|touchdown points have been officially updated in the NWS Damage\|Assessment Toolkit Viewer based on radar, pictures, videos, and\|emergency management accounts. No known damage occurred as a result\|of this tornado as it remained in open space NE of Laramie, WY. NWS\|meteorologists surveyed the accessible areas NE of Laramie and determined\|no damage indicators were impacted. Thus, a tornado rating of EF-Unknown\|(EF-U) has been determined. No injuries or fatalities.
July 2023	Flash Flood	West Laramie	-	Received reports via social media of water completely covering roads and coming over curbs and sidewalks in northwest Laramie west of Interstate 80.
July 2023	Flash Flood	Laramie	-	Emergency manager reported 4th Street in downtown Laramie was underwater.
June 2023	Flood	West Laramie	-	Pioneer Canal overflowed due to rainfall in recent days flooding adjacent Laramie mobile home park. Storm drains were clogged keeping water in place. Adjacent country road was flooded, but Wyoming Highway 230 remained above water level.
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Laramie	-	WYDOT sensor WY27 (Herrick Lane) reported thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph.
June 2023	Hail	Laramie	-	Hail report of 1 inch 1 mile southeast of Laramie.
June 2023	Hail	Laramie	-	Received image of 1 inch hail from Twitter.
June 2023	Hail	Laramie	-	Trained spotter reported 1.25 inch hail south southwest of Laramie.
June 2023	Hail	Laramie	-	Quarter to half dollar sized hail at University of Wyoming Campus.
June 2023	Hail	Laramie	-	Received video and text report from Twitter of golf ball sized hail at intersection of 4th and Reynolds in Laramie.
August 2022	Flash Flood	Laramie	-	Widespread flash flooding across the city with heavy rainfall from stationary thunderstorms. Numerous CoCoRaHS observers across the city measured between 1.5 to 2.75 inches of rainfall. Flooding was ongoing from 22nd Street to 1st Street and from Harney Street south to Spring Creek.
August 2022	Flash Flood	Laramie	-	Received report via Facebook that the park behind the middle school was flooded.
August 2021	Flash Flood	Laramie	-	Streets flooded. Spring Creek running out of its banks and a third of the way up flood control levees. Numerous reports of basements flooding. 0.85 to 1.20 inches of rainfall.
April 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Laramie	-	Strong thunderstorm outflow winds were measured at the Laramie Regional Airport.
July 2019	Hail	Laramie	-	Photo sent in showing hail damage to car windshield.
October 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Laramie	-	Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph were observed west of Laramie.
July 2018	Hail	Laramie	-	Golf ball size hail was observed south of Laramie.
May 2018	Hail	Laramie	-	Penny to quarter size hail was observed north of Laramie.
June 2017	Hail	Laramie	-	Dime to quarter size hail covered the ground northwest of Laramie.
June 2016	Hail	Laramie	-	Quarter size hail was reported a mile north of Laramie.
July 2015	Hail	Laramie	-	Half dollar size hail was observed two miles east-southeast of Laramie.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Laramie	-	Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph were observed eight miles northeast of Laramie.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Laramie	-	Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph were observed 10 miles east-southeast of Laramie.
July 2015	Hail	Laramie	-	Ping pong ball size hail was observed three miles southeast of Laramie.
August 2014	Hail	Laramie	-	Quarter size hail was observed in Laramie.
September 2014	Heavy Rain	Laramie	-	Two inches of rain was observed.
September 2014	Heavy Rain	Laramie	-	An observer just north of Laramie measured 1.6 inches of rain.
September 2014	Heavy Rain	Laramie	-	Two inches of rain was observed.
June 2013	Hail	Laramie	-	Marble to quarter size hail was reported in Laramie.
June 2013	Hail	Laramie	-	Nickel to ping pong ball size hail was reported just west of Laramie.
July 2012	Flash Flood	Laramie	-	Fourth Street in Laramie was barricaded due to high water.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Laramie	-	A trained spotter estimated wind gusts of 60 mph.
June 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Laramie	-	WYDOT sensor at Vedauwoo measured wind gusts of 61 mph.
July 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Laramie	-	The ASOS at the Laramie Regional Airport measured a peak wind gust of 61 mph.
June 2010	Hail	Laramie	-	Estimated time of report.
June 2010	Hail	Laramie	-	Hail occurred at the northwest side of town.
July 2009	Hail	Laramie	-	Hail from 1 to 1.75 inches in diameter reported.
May 2007	Hail	Laramie	-	Also estimated wind gusts 60-70 mph.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Laramie	-	Wind gust from dry microburst.
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Laramie	-	2 inch diameter tree limbs blown down.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Laramie	-	Dry microburst wind.
June 2003	Hail	Laramie	-	Nickel size hail at Interstate 80 and Grand Street Exit.
August 2002	Tornado (F0)	Laramie	-	Brief tornado touchdown in open country.
August 2002	Tornado (F0)	Laramie	-	Weak tornado briefly touched down in open country.
August 2002	Tornado (F0)	Laramie	-	Weak tornado spotted in Pole Mountain military reservation.
May 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Laramie	-	62 mph wind gust at the Laramie airport.

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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Flying Horseshoe Ranch	5.7 miles	2000
Centennial Depot	6.5 miles	1982
Mountain View Hotel	6.7 miles	2007
Centennial Work Center	7.6 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001468 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.