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US Post Office-Kemmerer Main

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Kemmerer Main Post Office in Kemmerer, Wyoming was built in 1934 as part of a facilities improvement program by the United States Post Office Department. The post office in Kemmerer 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 (Kemmerer, Wyoming), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Lincoln 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--Kemmerer Main - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Sapphire Ave. and Cedar St., Kemmerer, 83101
When was it listed? May 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Historic US Post Offices in Wyoming, 1900-1941, TR
Census division. Kemmerer East
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 87000786 - 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Kemmerer Main between 1992 and 2020, burning about 236 acres in total. 4 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/undetermined	10
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
3 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	12 acres	Lincoln County	WESTMORLAND MINE
22 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Kemmerer Field Office	CIGAR 2
19 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Lincoln County	OAKLY
1 September 2018	Debris and open burning	120 acres	Kemmerer Field Office	ASPEN SPRINGS
9 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kemmerer Field Office	POWER LINE
25 August 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Lincoln County	189 NORTH
25 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Kemmerer Field Office	FRONTIER
23 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	Kemmerer Field Office	MAGPIE

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Kemmerer Main: 2 unknowns, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Unknown (unverifiable)	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Unknown Gravel Pits	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kemmerer, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1996 and 2021: 5 hail, 3 wildfire, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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 2021	Flash Flood	Kemmerer	$25,000	Emergency management and trained spotters reported numerous flooded roads and basements around Kemmerer and Diamondville.
June 2016	Hail	Kemmerer	-	A severe thunderstorm dropped hail the size of quarters and ping pong balls in Kemmerer and at the Port of Entry on the outskirts of town.
August 2016	Hail	Kemmerer	-	Nickel sized hail fell in Kemmerer.
June 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Kemmerer	-	no account filed
September 2002	Wildfire	Kemmerer	-	no account filed
June 2001	Funnel Cloud	Kemmerer	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Kemmerer	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Kemmerer	-	no account filed
September 2000	Wildfire	Kemmerer	-	no account filed
August 2000	Wildfire	Kemmerer	-	no account filed
June 1996	Hail	Kemmerer	-	no account filed
June 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Kemmerer	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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

3 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
J. C. Penney Historic District	0.1 miles	1978
Lincoln County Courthouse	0.1 miles	1984
J. C. Penney House	0.2 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000786 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lincoln County	All 9 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.