Anderson Lodge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Anderson Lodge or Anderson Studio was built in 1890 in the Absaroka Range west of Meeteetse, Wyoming, in what was then the Yellowstone Park Timber Land Reserve, soon renamed the Yellowstone Forest Reserve. The two-story rustic log structure became the home of rancher and artist Abraham Archibald Anderson from 1901 to 1905.”
Wikipedia article Anderson Lodge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Park 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Greybull Ranger District, Shoshone National Forest, Meeteetse, 82433
When was it listed? September 1987
Category. district
Census division. Meeteetse
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 87001548 - 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

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Anderson Lodge between 1994 and 2014, burning about 114 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	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
24 August 1994	Natural	2.0 acres	Shoshone National Forest	VENUS CREEK
11 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Shoshone National Forest	JACK
8 July 2002	Natural	10 acres	Shoshone National Forest	JACK CREEK
30 November 2006	Other causes	under an acre	Shoshone National Forest	OUTFITTER
3 November 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shoshone National Forest	ELEANOR
26 October 1999	Recreation and ceremony	102 acres	Shoshone National Forest	VENUS CREEK

Every fire recorded in Park County

Storms near this property

30 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meeteetse, the town this property stands in, in 30 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 15 hail, 7 thunderstorm wind, 4 funnel cloud, 1 wildfire. 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
May 2023	Hail	Meeteetse	$5,000	Trained spotters reported golf ball-sized to lime-sized hail in the vicinity of Meeteetse, WY. Several people reported damaged skylights and cracked windshields from the hail.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Meeteetse	-	Wind gusts as high as 59 mph were reported along Highway 120 to the north of Meeteetse.
May 2019	Hail	Meeteetse	-	The public reported nickel size hail west of Meeteetse.
May 2018	Flash Flood	Meeteetse	-	A foot of water was reported to be flowing across Highway 120 around 5 miles south of Meeteetse.
May 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Meeteetse	-	The weather sensor north of Meeteetse reported several wind gusts past 58 mph, including a maximum gust of 76 mph.
June 2018	Funnel Cloud	Meeteetse	-	The public reported a funnel cloud to the west of Meeteetse.
June 2017	Flood	Meeteetse	-	Emergency management reported flooding along the Greybull River. The flooding remained over low lying areas and caused little or no damage.
June 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Meeteetse	-	The wind sensor along State Highway 120 on Meeteetse Rim recorded a thunderstorm wind gust to 63 mph.
July 2015	Hail	Meeteetse	-	A rancher along the Greybull River northeast of Meeteetse reported one inch diameter hail.
June 2013	Hail	Meeteetse	-	A rancher reported three-quarter inch diameter hail about 15 miles southeast of Meeteetse.
June 2013	Hail	Meeteetse	-	Spotters reported penny sized hail northeast of Meeteetse.
June 2013	Hail	Meeteetse	-	A trained spotter reported quarter sized hail.
May 2013	Tornado (EF0)	Meeteetse	-	The Park County Sheriffs Office reported a weak tornado east of State Highway 120 between Cody and Meeteetse, and north of the Greybull River. The tornado was seen and photographed from several vantage points as it traveled east-northeast near the Y-U Bench.
September 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Meeteetse	-	A strong thunderstorm moved east of the Absaroka Mountains and produced a severe wind gust at an automated observing site along State Highway 120 north of Meeteetse.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Meeteetse	-	A thunderstorm moved off the Absaroka Range and produced a 62 mph wind gust at an automated Wyoming Department of Transportation weather station along State Highway 120 north of Meeteetse.
July 2011	Hail	Meeteetse	-	Nickel sized hail fell at a ranch along the Lower Greybull River Road northeast of Meeteetse.
June 2010	Hail	Meeteetse	-	A strong thunderstorm developed over the southern Absaroka Mountains and moved over the town of Meeteetse dropping one inch diameter hail.
June 2009	Hail	Meeteetse	-	Hail to the size of quarters fell along Road 3LD north of Meeteetse. This storm damaged some dry bean fields and forced one farmer to replant the crop.
June 2009	Hail	Meeteetse	-	Three-quarter inch diameter hail covered the ground along the Lower Greybull River Road.
May 2008	Hail	Meeteetse	-	Penny sized hail was reported along State Highway 120 south of Meeteetse.
May 2008	Funnel Cloud	Meeteetse	-	A trained spotter reported a funnel cloud southwest of Meeteetse.
May 2008	Hail	Meeteetse	-	Penny sized hail was observed two miles north of Meeteetse.
April 2025	Hail	Meeteetse	-	no account filed
September 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Meeteetse	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Meeteetse	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Meeteetse	-	no account filed
August 2001	Wildfire	Meeteetse	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Meeteetse	-	no account filed
June 1997	Funnel Cloud	Meeteetse	-	no account filed
June 1997	Funnel Cloud	Meeteetse	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Park 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 87001548 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Park County	All 38 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.