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Photograph of Evanston Main Post Office
Photograph by Tricia Simpson, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

US Post Office-Evanston Main

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Evanston Main Post Office in Evanston, Wyoming was built in 1905 as part of a facilities improvement program by the United States Post Office Department. The post office in Evanston was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as part of a thematic study comprising twelve Wyoming post offices built to standardized USPO plans in the early twentieth century.”

Wikipedia article Evanston Main Post Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Uinta 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 listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. US Post Office--Evanston Main - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 221 Tenth St., Evanston, 82930
  • When was it listed? May 1987
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Historic US Post Offices in Wyoming, 1900-1941, TR
  • Census division. Evanston
  • Architectural style. Beaux-Arts
  • National Register reference number. 87000790 - 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

48 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Evanston Main between 1994 and 2020, burning about 1,267 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 1 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/undetermined14
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Natural6
Fireworks6
Debris and open burning5
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony2
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

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
4 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
3 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
28 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreUinta CountyI80 M.P. 21 EAST B.
25 September 2020Arson/incendiarismunder an acreUinta CountyWYOMING DOWNS GRASS FIRE
23 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresKemmerer Field OfficeOVERTHRUST
9 August 2020Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreUinta CountyTWO DEAD BIRDS
9 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUinta County7TH STREET FIRE
8 August 2011Fireworks1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Uinta County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Evanston Main: 6 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Uinta County

Storms near this property

20 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Evanston, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1994 and 2026: 18 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. 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 1994Thunderstorm WindEvanston$50,000Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 mph struck Evanston late on the 4th. Several trees were blown down and a large branch was blown onto a bathroom at the Bear River State Park causing $10,000 damage.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEvanston$250A school crossing sign was blown off of a pole.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindEvanston-A strong thunderstorm brought multiple severe gusts measured by the Evanston-Uinta County Airport - Burns Field ASOS. The first severe gust, which occurred at 1455, was measured at 59mph. This was then followed by a gust to 64mph at 1457, followed by the third and final severe gust to 64mph at 1502 as multiple storms tracked over Evanston, WY.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindEvanston-The Evanston-Uinta County Airport - Burns Field ASOS (KEVW) station recorded a period of wind gusts to 70 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindEvanston-A wind gust of 61 mph was measured by the WY7 mesonet station in Evanston.
June 2024Thunderstorm WindEvanston-A wind gust of 58 mph was measured by the Evanston-Uinta County Airport - Burns Field ASOS.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindEvanston-A wind gust of 60 mph was recorded at the Evanston-Uinta County Airport - Burns Field ASOS.
September 2024Thunderstorm WindEvanston-The Evanston-Uinta County Airport - Burns Field ASOS recorded wind gusts of 60 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindEvanston-The Evanston-Uinta County Airport - Burns Field ASOS recorded a wind gust of 59 mph as a result of outflow winds associated with a nearby cluster of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindEvanston-The Evanston-Uinta County Airport - Burns Field ASOS recorded a period of wind gusts up to 73 mph between 5:58 pm and 7:09 pm MST. The gusts were the result of outflow winds associated with a line of showers and thunderstorms moving through the area.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindEvanston-The Interstate 80/U.S. Highway 189 Evanston of Entry automated weather station recorded gusts of 60 and 58 mph.
September 2021Thunderstorm WindEvanston-The Evanston-Uinta County Airport - Burns Field automated weather station record a peak wind gust of 71 mph.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindEvanston-The Evanston-Uinta County Airport - Burns Field ASOS recorded a peak wind gust of 60 mph.
May 2017HailEvanston-Nickel-sized hail was reported along Interstate 80 near the Utah/Wyoming border.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindEvanston-A peak wind gust of 61 mph was recorded at the Evanston, Wyoming ASOS.
June 2010Thunderstorm WindEvanston-The Evanston, Wyoming ASOS recorded a wind gust to 58 mph.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindEvanston-The Evanston ASOS recorded a maximum wind gust of 58 mph.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindEvanston-A wind gust of 54 knots was recorded at the Evanston, Wyoming ASOS.
August 2003HailEvanston-Large hail fell on a swath from east of Evanston to Mountain View. The hail covered the ground, with the largest hailstone reported at 0.88 inches.
May 1994Thunderstorm WindEvanston-A large severe thunderstorm complex formed over east-central Utah during the morning hours of the 31st and developed a remarkable bow echo as it moved across central and northern Utah. This same system held together as it entered southwest Wyoming and produced wind gusts in excess of 60 mph downing a large tree in Evanston.

Every storm recorded in Uinta 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

6 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
Downtown Evanston Historic Districtunder 500 feet1983
A. V. Quinn Houseunder 500 feet1984
Uinta County Courthouseunder 500 feet1977
St. Paul's Episcopal Church0.1 miles1980
St. Paul's Episcopal Church0.1 miles1980
Union Pacific Railroad Complex0.3 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87000790 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Uinta CountyAll 13 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.