Circle Ranch

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. 4 mi. SW of Big Piney off WY 350, Big Piney, 83113
When was it listed? May 1987
Category. district
Census division. Big Piney
National Register reference number. 87000778 - 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

13 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Circle Ranch between 1996 and 2020, burning about 182 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
Debris and open burning	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Fireworks	1
Natural	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
9 August 2013	Natural	1.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
11 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sublette County	MP 113
4 July 2020	Fireworks	under an acre	Sublette County	MARBLETON HILL FIRE
7 May 2018	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Sublette County	MCADAMS FIRE
6 May 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	35 acres	Sublette County	MCADAMS RANCH
3 May 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Sublette County	111 DOUG REES
3 May 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	120 acres	Sublette County	GEORGE KARL FIRE
12 April 2017	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Sublette County	COTTONWOOD

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 Circle Ranch: 4 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Fear	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown

Every working recorded in Sublette County

Storms near this property

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Big Piney, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2001: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 flash 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
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Piney	$400,000	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Big Piney	-	no account filed
August 2001	Flash Flood	Big Piney	-	no account filed
August 2001	Hail	Big Piney	-	no account filed
July 1997	Tornado (F0)	Big Piney	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Big Piney	-	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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000778 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sublette County	All 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.