Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
From the record
“The Gap Puche Cabin is a log cabin near Jackson, Wyoming that is the last survivor of the early outfitting industry in Jackson Hole. It was built c. 1929 at the junction of the Gros Ventre River and Crystal Creek by brothers-in-law Actor Nelson and Charlie Smith.”
Wikipedia article Gap Puche Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 65 National Register listings published here for Teton County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.90000889- 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
38 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 38 fires within 5 miles of Gap Puche Cabin
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 12,636 acres in total. 20 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
Natural
20
Recreation and ceremony
11
Debris and open burning
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
6 workings within 5 miles of Gap Puche Cabin: 5 occurrences, 1 prospect.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Kelly, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2022: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado.
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.
A supercell thunderstorm moved over the Bridger Teton National Forest to the east of Jackson, WY. Strong outflow winds from the supercell downed hundreds of trees over an approximately 6 mile path. There was extensive damage to the Crystal Creek Campground, where people were trapped until the road could be cleared 24 hours later. The Grizzly Lake Trail and Gros Ventre River Road were affected by tree damage. Maximum wind gusts were estimated to be in the 80 to 120 mph range based on tree damage. This damage is in addition to the tornado that occurred at higher elevations to the southwest of this lower-elevation campground damage and road damage.
Several months after this event, Bridger Teton National Forest staff reached out to the NWS Riverton office and shared images and helicopter footage of a distinct path of tree damage through a thickly-forested high-elevation area that coincided with a supercell path from June 12, 2022. This area of widespread tree damage was inaccessible and not viewable to the NWS damage survey team that visited the valley nearby immediately following the event.||Post-event interrogation of radar imagery from the event shows a strong rotation couplet above this damage area. After consulting with other Great Plains NWS staff with more than 20 years of tornado-damage-determining experience, this was determined to be tornado damage. The tree fall pattern and path were consistent with strong tornadic rotation. ||The EF2 designation comes from looking at the softwood damage indicator of the Enhanced Fujita Scale. Pictures show thousands of pine trees snapped at various heights, with hardly any trees remaining upright. There was some evidence of debarking in photos as well. For this reason, wind speeds were estimated to be between 128 and 131 mph, based on the upper bound for softwood trunks snapped and the expected damage for softwood debarked. ||Path length and width were determined from polar-orbiting satellite data from the summer months after the event. Notable decreases in vegetation could be seen, with a clearly defined damage path.
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
1 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.
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.
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