Reliance School and Gymnasium

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Reliance School was built in the coal mining community of Reliance, Wyoming in 1923-27. The school was built by the Union Pacific Coal Company to serve Reliance, which existed almost entirely to serve the Union Pacific mines.”
Wikipedia article Reliance School and Gymnasium, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Sweetwater 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. 1321 Main St., Reliance, 82943
When was it listed? May 1988
Category. building
Census division. Rock Springs North
National Register reference number. 87002303 - 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

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Reliance School and Gymnasium between 1992 and 2020, burning about 78 acres in total. 6 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	32
Fireworks	27
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Natural	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Debris and open burning	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
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 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sweetwater County	SPRINGS
25 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Sweetwater County	COLLEGE FIRE
17 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Sweetwater County	I-80 MM107
8 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	ANTELOPE
8 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Rock Springs Field Office	I80 MM 110
7 August 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Sweetwater County	UNKNOWN
6 August 2017	Misuse of fire by a minor	1.0 acres	Sweetwater County	MOHAWK DEPRESSION
5 August 2018	Smoking	under an acre	Sweetwater County	GANNETT FIRE

Every fire recorded in Sweetwater 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 Reliance School and Gymnasium: 6 past producers, 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Uranium. 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	Uranium	Occurrence
State Highway Department ledge rock quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
State Highway Department ledge rock quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
State Highway Department ledge rock quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
State Highway Department Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
State Highway Dept	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Sweetwater County

Storms near this property

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Reliance, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2014: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2014	Lightning	Reliance	1 hurt	A 31-year-old man was injured when lightning struck him on the practice putting green at White Mountain Golf Course on the north side of Rock Springs. A witness to the incident was able to revive the man with CPR and a defibrillator.
May 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Reliance	$15,000	A large roof section was torn from a home in the small community of Reliance north of Rock Springs. Strong wind also toppled a utility pole and did damage to a nearby fence. Weak convection was responsible for the wind gust, as there was no thunderstorm in the area.

Every storm recorded in Sweetwater 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Reliance Tipple	0.6 miles	1991
Outlaw Inn	3.8 miles	2018
Saints Cyril and Methodius Catholic Church and Rectory	5.0 miles	2015
Slovenski Dom	5.0 miles	1997
Gras House	5.1 miles	1986
Vienna Saloon	5.1 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87002303 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sweetwater County	All 28 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.