Brush Creek Work Center

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Brush Creek Work Center in Medicine Bow National Forest near Saratoga, Wyoming is a ranger station of the USDA Forest Service, Region 2 that was built during 1937-41, by the Ryan Park CCC Camp, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was designed by architects of the United States Forest Service in rustic style.”
Wikipedia article Brush Creek Work Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carbon County · listed in 1994 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. WY 130 E of Saratoga, Medicine Bow NF, Saratoga, 82331
When was it listed? April 1994
Category. district
Also known as. Depression-Era USDA Forest Service Administrative Complexes on Medicine Bow NF MPS
Census division. Saratoga
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 94000276 - 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Brush Creek Work Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 102 acres in total. 6 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	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
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
20 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	261
11 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	EAGLE EYE
29 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	BARRETT
15 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	NO ONE'S
8 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	LINCOLN
6 July 2002	Natural	1.0 acres	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	COTTONWOOD
5 July 1996	Natural	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	MULLISON
28 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National Grassland	BRUSH CREEK SITE 4

Every fire recorded in Carbon County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Brush Creek Work Center: 2 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Brush Creek	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
Mullison Creek	Gold	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Carbon County

Storms near this property

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Saratoga, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2013: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 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
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Saratoga	-	The wind senor at the Saratoga Airport measured a gust of 60 mph.
June 2010	Flood	Saratoga	-	Excessive snow melt caused the North Platte river to flood the public golf course and Veteran's Island. Estimated time and duration of event.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Saratoga	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Carbon 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 94000276 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carbon County	All 43 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.