Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
From the record
“Ten Sleep Mercantile, also known as Ten Sleep Hardware, is a typical historic small-town general store in Ten Sleep, Wyoming, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (PNRHP).”
Wikipedia article Ten Sleep Mercantile, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Washakie County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.86002324- 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
51 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Ten Sleep Mercantile
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 350 acres in total. 25 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
25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
9
Fireworks
7
Debris and open burning
6
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Firearms and explosives use
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
14 workings within 5 miles of Ten Sleep Mercantile: 7 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gypsum-Anhydrite, Uranium, Nitrogen-Nitrates. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Ten Sleep, the town this property stands in, in 28 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 14 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 5 funnel cloud, 2 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.
Ping pong ball sized hail driven by wind gusts estimated to be around 85 mph damaged roofs, rain gutters, windows, and siding of several homes in the Nowood River Valley south of Ten Sleep. The wind also ripped metal roofing from a garage, while another garage was significantly damaged by a toppled Cottonwood tree. A rear flank downdraft associated with a nearby supercell thunderstorm was responsible for the damaging wind.
Ping pong ball sized hail fell for several minutes at ranches just west of State Highway 434. Substantial damage was done to the sorghum crop at one ranch.
An EF-2 tornado with maximum winds at 130 mph touched down in Northeast Washakie county in a heavily forested area at around 8000 feet. The tornado downed and snapped off around 1,000 trees near ground level during its short path.
Washakie County sheriff deputies reported flooding around the Ten Sleep Creek bridge along Highway 16. The water flooded several campsites. The water also got close to surface of the bridge but never topped it.
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.
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.
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