Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot in Powder River, Wyoming, also known as Powder River Train Station, was built in 1910. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Powder River station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Natrona County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 35231 W. Dakota Ave., Powder River, 82648
When was it listed? January 1988
Category. building
Census division. Hells Half Acre
National Register reference number. 87002296 - 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

14 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot between 1995 and 2020, burning about 3,220 acres in total. 2 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	9
Natural	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Debris and open burning	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
25 August 1996	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Casper Field Office	SHIRTTAIL
13 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,112 acres	Natrona County	MIDDLE FORK
9 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	47 acres	Casper Field Office	NOTCHES ROAD
29 July 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Casper Field Office	NOTCHES
28 July 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
23 July 2000	Natural	640 acres	Casper Field Office	POWDER RVR
23 July 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	3.0 acres	Casper Field Office	BN#1
2 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	408 acres	Natrona County	MM 36

Every fire recorded in Natrona County

Storms near this property

9 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Powder River, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2013: 4 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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
June 2013	Hail	Powder River	$10,000	Vehicles were forced to pull over near Powder River as baseball sized hail fell from a second severe thunderstorm.
June 2013	Hail	Powder River	$2,000	Ping pong ball sized hail broke windows at a residence in Powder River.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Powder River	-	The public estimated 60 mph gusts one mile north of the Powder River post office.
June 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Powder River	-	The public estimated 70 mph wind gusts five miles east of Powder River.
July 2007	Hail	Powder River	-	Golf ball sized hail fell in Powder River for 10 to 15 minutes.
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Powder River	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Powder River	-	no account filed
June 1998	Tornado (F0)	Powder River	-	no account filed
June 1998	Funnel Cloud	Powder River	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Natrona 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 87002296 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Natrona County	All 36 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.