Quien Sabe Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“Quien Sabe Ranch is a ranch in Fremont County, Wyoming, about 18 miles (29 km) northeast of Shoshoni. The ranch structures date to the 1880s, part of a ranching operation established around 1883 by three English immigrants: Harry Jevons, Richard Ashworth and Richard Berry.”
Wikipedia article Quien Sabe Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Fremont County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Quien Sabe Ranch Rd., 18 mi. NE of Shoshoni, Shoshoni, 82649
When was it listed? April 1991
Category. district
Also known as. Pioneer Ranches/Farms in Fremont County MPS
Census division. Shoshoni
National Register reference number. 91000434 - 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Quien Sabe Ranch between 1992 and 2019, burning about 49 acres in total. 7 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
Natural	7
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
8 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	COPPERMTN2
8 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Rawlins Field Office	COPPERMTN1
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	7.7 acres	Lander Field Office	QUIEN SABE
24 September 2012	Natural	18 acres	Lander Field Office	HOODOO
20 July 2013	Natural	5.7 acres	Lander Field Office	WHO KNOWS
2 July 2019	Natural	2.5 acres	Lander Field Office	BIRDSEYE
1 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
3 June 1996	Natural	2.0 acres	Rawlins Field Office	BASKETT

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Quien Sabe Ranch: 27 occurrences, 7 prospects, 7 past producers, 2 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Tungsten, Iron, Copper. 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	Recorded
Copper Mountain #2	Niobium (Columbium), Beryllium, Feldspar, Mica, Tantalum	Past Producer
Dawn Claim	Tungsten, Garnet	Occurrence
Golden Dome	Mercury	Occurrence	Cinnabar
Hoodoo Creek Claims	Tungsten, Garnet	Past Producer
Quien Sabe Mine	Niobium (Columbium), Beryllium, Feldspar, Tantalum	Past Producer
Stardust Mine	Tungsten, Aluminum, Garnet	Past Producer
Unknown	Aluminum, Sulfur	Occurrence
Unknown	Abrasive	Occurrence
Unknown	Gold, Silver, Copper	Prospect
Whippet No. 1 Prospect	Mica, Feldspar, Beryllium, Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium)	Prospect	Beryl, Columbite, Feldspar, Albite, Muscovite, Lepidolite, Tantalite

Every working recorded in Fremont County

Storms near this property

16 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shoshoni, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 heavy rain, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Shoshoni	-	A 59 mph wind gust was reported along Badwater Road north of Shoshoni.
July 2018	Hail	Shoshoni	-	An off duty National Weather Service employee reported nickel size hail at the intersection of US 26 and Missouri Valley Road.
June 2015	Hail	Shoshoni	-	Hail as large as one inch in diameter fell in Shoshoni.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Shoshoni	-	A local emergency manager estimated 60 mph wind gusts as a thunderstorm moved through the town of Shoshoni.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Shoshoni	-	Two trees were downed when a thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 70 mph struck a ranch near Boysen Reservoir.
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Shoshoni	-	Large tree limbs down
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Shoshoni	-	BUREC at Boysen Dam
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Shoshoni	-	no account filed
August 2023	Hail	Shoshoni	-	no account filed
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Shoshoni	-	no account filed
June 2003	Flash Flood	Shoshoni	-	no account filed
September 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Shoshoni	-	no account filed
September 1999	Heavy Rain	Shoshoni	-	no account filed
April 1999	Tornado (F0)	Shoshoni	-	no account filed
June 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Shoshoni	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Shoshoni	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Fremont 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 91000434 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fremont County	All 31 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.