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New Fork

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Sublette County · listed in 1987 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 3 mi. S of Boulder on US 187, Boulder, 82923
  • When was it listed? July 1987
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Boulder
  • National Register reference number. 87000773 - 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

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of New Fork between 1995 and 2020, burning about 60 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/undetermined2
Natural1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 July 2016Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acrePinedale Field OfficeMILE MARKER 90
1 July 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
19 June 2006Natural1.5 acresPinedale Field OfficeLOVATT
21 April 2020Debris and open burning50 acresSublette CountyGRABEL
17 April 2019Missing data/not specified/undetermined7.7 acresPinedale Field OfficeFISH

Every fire recorded in Sublette County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of New Fork: 3 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Boulder No. 1Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Sublette County

Storms near this property

5 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Boulder, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2005 and 2018: 4 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2018HailBoulder-A trained spotter reported nickel size hail to the east of Boulder.
March 2007Thunderstorm WindBoulder-Measured wind gust on home weather station.
July 2005HailBoulder-no account filed
July 2005HailBoulder-no account filed
July 2005HailBoulder-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sublette 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 PropertyDistance Listed
DDZ Bridge over New Fork River3.3 miles1985
Steele Homestead6.0 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87000773 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sublette CountyAll 20 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.