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Photograph of Parco Historic District
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Parco Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Parco Historic District, also known as the Sinclair Historic District, comprises the center of Sinclair, Wyoming, originally known as Parco, surrounding the Parco Inn. The district includes 93 buildings, of which 49 are considered to be contributing structures to the district.”

Wikipedia article Parco Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 1987 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

20 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 20 fires within 5 miles of Parco Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use5
Railroad operations and maintenance4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Natural3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
5 September 1993Natural3.0 acresRawlins Field OfficeSET BRAKE
29 September 2006Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
20 September 2012Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresWyoming State ForestryMP 225, I-80
6 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCarbon County215
27 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeGOLF COURSE
17 August 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeEAST INTERCHANGE
4 July 2020Fireworksunder an acreCarbon CountyHIGLEY FIRE
27 July 1999Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeRR 674

Every fire recorded in Carbon 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 Parco Historic District: 2 unknowns, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium. 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
Charlie Claim GroupUraniumProspect
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this property

4 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sinclair, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1993 and 2018: 2 hail, 2 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
May 2018HailSinclair-Hail broke several windows on a nearby car in addition to roofing shingles.
June 2017Thunderstorm WindSinclair-Estimated wind gusts of 55 to 60 mph were observed.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindSinclair-The WYDOT sensor three miles east of Sinclair measured a peak wind gust of 64 mph.
September 1993HailSinclair-An undersheriff reported a funnel cloud southwest of Rawlins. Near noon, hail up to 0.75 inch and 3 inches deep was noted on Interstate 80 through the town of Sinclair.

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87000918 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carbon CountyAll 43 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.