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Daniel School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Daniel School was built in Daniel, Wyoming by contractor A.F. The rural school served Daniel and its surrounding area, replacing improvised school facilities.”

Wikipedia article Daniel School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Sublette County · listed in 1990 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. US 189, Daniel, 83115
  • When was it listed? September 1990
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Pinedale
  • National Register reference number. 90001387 - 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

9 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Daniel School between 1993 and 2018, burning about 21 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/undetermined3
Natural2
Firearms and explosives use1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
7 August 1998Naturalunder an acreRock Springs Field OfficeDANIEL
13 August 2006Firearms and explosives use1.6 acresPinedale Field OfficeTRACER
24 July 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePinedale Field OfficeMILE MARKER 112
29 June 2013Natural1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
16 April 2018Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreSublette CountyHORSE CREEK
11 March 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresSublette CountyKAUL
20 October 2018Equipment and vehicle use15 acresSublette CountyGRANDVIEW GRINDER
1 October 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Sublette County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Daniel School: 4 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Alexander PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
James RanchSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Unknown Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown
Wye PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionUnknown

Every working recorded in Sublette County

Storms near this property

8 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Daniel, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2002 and 2026: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 flood, 1 hail. 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
July 2011FloodDaniel$50,000Horse Creek and other small tributaries of the Green River near Daniel overflowed their banks quickly flooding lowlands and nearly impacting several roads. The flood waters caused several homes north and east of Daniel to be sandbagged around their perimeter.
April 2026Thunderstorm WindDaniel-A 59 mph wind gust occurred in the Lee of the Absarokas at the Cottonwood Merna mesonet site.
June 2025Thunderstorm WindDaniel-A maximum 71 mph wind gust was reported at the Cottonwood Merna weather station to the west of Daniel.
July 2025Thunderstorm WindDaniel-A 65 mph wind gust was reported to the west of Daniel.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindDaniel-A 59 mph wind gust occurred at the Cottonwood Merna mesonet site to the west of Daniel.
August 2025Thunderstorm WindDaniel-no account filed
August 2022HailDaniel-no account filed
July 2002WildfireDaniel-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sublette 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

5 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Father DeSmet's Prairie Mass Site1.7 miles1970
Upper Green River Rendezvous Site2.0 miles1966
Fort Bonneville3.7 miles1970
Cora Townsite7.1 miles2017
ENP Bridge over Green River8.0 miles1985

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90001387 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sublette CountyAll 20 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.