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US Post Office-Basin Main

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Basin Main Post Office in Basin, Wyoming was built in 1919 as part of a facilities improvement program by the United States Post Office Department. The post office in Basin was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a thematic study comprising twelve Wyoming post offices built to standardized USPO plans in the early twentieth century.”

Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Basin, Wyoming), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Big Horn County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. US Post Office--Basin Main - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 402 W. C St., Basin, 82410
  • When was it listed? May 1987
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Historic US Post Offices in Wyoming, 1900-1941, TR
  • Census division. South Big Horn
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 87000779 - 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Basin Main between 1992 and 2020, burning about 385 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning13
Fireworks3
Recreation and ceremony2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresBighorn CountyORCHARD BENCH 2
6 September 2020Debris and open burning2.0 acresBighorn CountyORCHARD BENCH
4 September 2020Debris and open burning1.0 acresBighorn CountyMRYTLE STREE
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBighorn CountyHWY 30#3
30 September 2020Power generation/transmission/distribution5.0 acresBighorn CountyHWY 30
30 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresBighorn CountyHWY 30 #2
22 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined5.0 acresBighorn CountyRD 28.5
10 August 2020Natural5.0 acresBighorn CountyGUN RANGE

Every fire recorded in Big Horn County

Storms near this property

18 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Basin, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 5 hail, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1997Flash FloodBasin$91,000no account filed
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBasin$50,000There was extensive thunderstorm wind damage in Basin. Most of the damage occurred south of Wyoming Avenue over the southern-quarter of the town. A large tree fell over onto the bed of a pickup, rendering it useless. Downed trees and limbs were responsible for roof damage and flying debris shattered both home and vehicle windows.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBasin$10,000Damage at a local ranch included a barn roof being ripped off with the remnants scattered across the property. The flying tin roof damaged a corral and injured one horse. Swathed hay that had not yet been baled was completely blown away amounting to a loss of about nine tons.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindBasin$3,000A severe wind gust was measured on equipment located at a landfill about three miles north-northwest of Basin. Power lines and trees were also reported down in the area.
May 2022HailBasin-A trained spotter reported quarter size hail to the north of Basin along Highway 789.
June 2019HailBasin-A trained spotter reported nickel size hail in Basin.
June 2018Funnel CloudBasin-A trained spotter observed a funnel cloud 4 miles west of Basin.
July 2009HailBasin-Hail up to the size of pennies fell in Basin.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindBasin-A trained spotter estimated wind gusts to 60 mph.
June 2006Thunderstorm WindBasin-no account filed
July 2004Thunderstorm WindBasin-no account filed
June 2001Tornado (F0)Basin-no account filed
July 1997Tornado (F0)Basin-no account filed
July 1997HailBasin-no account filed
June 1997Tornado (F0)Basin-no account filed
June 1997Tornado (F0)Basin-no account filed
June 1997HailBasin-no account filed
June 1997Tornado (F0)Basin-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Big Horn 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Basin Republican-Rustler Printing Buildingunder 500 feet1976
American Legion Hall, Post 327.4 miles2014
US Post Office-Greybull Main7.4 miles1987
Carey Block7.6 miles2009

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87000779 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Big Horn CountyAll 16 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.
  • 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.