Pioneer School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Pioneer School stands in an isolated location in Park County, Wyoming, about 8 miles (13 km) north of Clark, in the Clark Fork Valley near the Montana border. The frame structure is an example of a country school built to serve students in rural areas prior to the introduction of school bus routes to more centrally located facilities.”
Wikipedia article Pioneer School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 1993 · 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. Co. Rd. 1-AG N of Badger Basin, Clark, 82435
When was it listed? October 1993
Category. building
Census division. Cody
National Register reference number. 93001011 - 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

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Pioneer School between 2007 and 2018, burning about 23 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Natural	1
Fireworks	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
9 July 2014	Natural	under an acre	Cody Field Office	HIGHLAND ASSIST
19 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18 acres	Billings Field Office	IRON FIRE
10 June 2018	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Southern Land Office	FIRECRACKER
18 March 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Southern Land Office	248 CHANCE
12 November 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Cody Field Office	ROBERTSON

Every fire recorded in Park County

Storms near this property

6 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Clark, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2001 and 2010: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2001	Flash Flood	Clark	$400,000	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Clark	-	One inch diameter hail fell in Clark, but no damage was reported.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Clark	-	Trained spotters estimated wind gusts of at least 60 mph near Clark.
August 2004	Hail	Clark	-	no account filed
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Clark	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Clark	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Park 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 93001011 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Park County	All 38 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.