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Photograph of C. H. King Company and First National Bank of Shoshoni
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King, C. H., Company, and First National Bank of Shoshoni

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“King Company and First National Bank Building, also known as Yellowstone Drug, is one of the oldest buildings in Shoshoni, Wyoming. The building was built for Charles Henry King in 1905-1906.”

Wikipedia article C. H. King Company and First National Bank of Shoshoni, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Fremont County · listed in 1994 · 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. 127 Main St., Shoshoni, 82649
  • When was it listed? September 1994
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Shoshoni
  • National Register reference number. 94001135 - 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

18 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of King, C. H., Company, and First National Bank of Shoshoni between 2009 and 2020, burning about 12 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/undetermined9
Fireworks3
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural1
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 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLander Field OfficeHIGHWAY
3 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLander Field OfficeTOUGH
26 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFremont CountyBOYSEN RAILROAD
18 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreLander Field OfficePOISON
11 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresFremont CountyNONE
4 August 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFremont County363 BONNEVILLE ROAD
31 August 2012Naturalunder an acreLander Field OfficeCAUSEWAY
6 July 2018Fireworksunder an acreFremont CountyNONE

Every fire recorded in Fremont County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of King, C. H., Company, and First National Bank of Shoshoni: 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Feldspar. 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
Bonneville MillFeldsparProducer
UnknownUraniumOccurrence

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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2025Thunderstorm WindShoshoni-A 59 mph wind gust was reported along Badwater Road north of Shoshoni.
July 2018HailShoshoni-An off duty National Weather Service employee reported nickel size hail at the intersection of US 26 and Missouri Valley Road.
June 2015HailShoshoni-Hail as large as one inch in diameter fell in Shoshoni.
July 2012Thunderstorm WindShoshoni-A local emergency manager estimated 60 mph wind gusts as a thunderstorm moved through the town of Shoshoni.
July 2008Thunderstorm WindShoshoni-Two trees were downed when a thunderstorm wind gust estimated at 70 mph struck a ranch near Boysen Reservoir.
July 1998Thunderstorm WindShoshoni-Large tree limbs down
July 1998Thunderstorm WindShoshoni-BUREC at Boysen Dam
August 2024Thunderstorm WindShoshoni-no account filed
August 2023HailShoshoni-no account filed
May 2006Thunderstorm WindShoshoni-no account filed
June 2003Flash FloodShoshoni-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindShoshoni-no account filed
September 1999Heavy RainShoshoni-no account filed
April 1999Tornado (F0)Shoshoni-no account filed
June 1999Thunderstorm WindShoshoni-no account filed
July 1998HailShoshoni-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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 94001135 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Fremont CountyAll 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.