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Photograph of First National Bank of Rock River
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

First National Bank of Rock River

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The First National Bank of Rock River was built in 1919 in the small community of Rock River, Wyoming, at the peak of a local oil boom and operated from February 1920. The bank closed its doors on April 11, 1923 as the oil boom collapsed and its vice president was convicted of embezzlement.”

Wikipedia article First National Bank of Rock River, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 42 National Register listings published here for Albany 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

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 131 Ave. C, Rock River, 82083
  • When was it listed? November 1988
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Rock River
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 88002532 - 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

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of First National Bank of Rock River between 2006 and 2020, burning about 3 acres in total. 1 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
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
12 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.2 acresAlbany CountyROCK RIVER 1
7 June 2006Naturalunder an acreRawlins Field OfficeTOWER

Every fire recorded in Albany County

Storms near this property

13 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Rock River, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1995 and 2021: 9 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 flash flood. 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
August 2021HailRock River-Quarter to half dollar sized hail reported on Twitter in Rock River with photo provided.
July 2019Thunderstorm WindRock River-Winds measured at the Union Pacific Railroad Mesonet station RKRIVR.
July 2016Thunderstorm WindRock River-Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph were reported at Rock River.
June 2014HailRock River-Quarter to half dollar size hail was observed in Rock River.
June 2010HailRock River-Estimated time of report.
August 2007Flash FloodRock River-Water up to 8 inches deep flowing across highway.
June 1995Tornado (F0)Rock River-A brief tornado touched down in Albany County 22 miles east of Rock River. Rock River is located 35 northwest of Laramie.
July 2019HailRock River-no account filed
July 2019HailRock River-no account filed
July 2019HailRock River-no account filed
June 2018HailRock River-no account filed
April 2005HailRock River-no account filed
August 2002HailRock River-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Albany 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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 88002532 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Albany CountyAll 42 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.