Pine Bluffs High School

Built in 1929 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Pine Bluffs High School, at the junction of 7th and Elm Sts. in Pine Bluffs, Wyoming, was built in 1929. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.”
Wikipedia article Pine Bluffs High School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 60 National Register listings published here for Laramie County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1929, Neoclassical architecture.

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. Jct. of 7th and Elm Sts., Pine Bluffs, 82082
When was it listed? March 1996
Category. building
Census division. Pine Bluffs
When was it built? 1929
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 96000228 - 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

15 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Pine Bluffs High School between 2006 and 2020, burning about 106 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Debris and open burning	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
30 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
19 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
4 August 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Laramie County	MUDDY CREEK FIRE
2 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
17 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Laramie County	MM398
3 June 2011	Railroad operations and maintenance	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
18 June 2006	Natural	30 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
30 May 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Laramie County	ROAD 210

Every fire recorded in Laramie County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Pine Bluffs High School: 1 producer. All of them still produce. 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	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Laramie County

Storms near this property

60 of 79 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pine Bluffs, the town this property stands in, in 79 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 52 hail, 9 tornado, 7 flash flood, 6 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluffs	$3,000	Center pivots blown over at intersection of County Roads 212 and 158.
June 2003	Hail	Pine Bluffs	$2,000	no account filed
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluffs	$1,000	Wind gusts of 69 mph were reported in Pine Bluffs.
September 1996	Hail	Pine Bluffs	$1,000	no account filed
May 2010	Flash Flood	Pine Bluffs	$200	County Road 219 under water.
May 2010	Flash Flood	Pine Bluffs	$100	Flash flooding of low lying areas. 1.53 inches total rainfall.
March 2025	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Hail was reported in the town of Pine Bluffs near the Nebraska border.
August 2024	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Storm chaser reported 1.75 inch hail 6 miles north of Pine Bluffs.
August 2024	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Storm chaser reported half dollar sized hail in Pine Bluffs.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluffs	-	Storm chaser reports 60 mph wind in Pine Bluffs.
August 2024	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Storm chaser reported 1.2 inch hail in Pine Bluffs.
August 2024	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Emergency Manager reported quarter sized hail in Pine Bluffs.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluffs	-	MPING report of 3 inch diameter tree branches down along with power poles down.
May 2019	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Home of observer was damaged by hail with several windows broken along with unspecified damage to vehicle.
May 2019	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Images received showed damage to vehicles in driveway.
May 2017	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Marble to quarter size hail accumulated two inches deep. The wind-driven hail stripped trees and a wheat field.
June 2017	Funnel Cloud	Pine Bluffs	-	A funnel cloud was reported five miles south of Pine Bluffs.
June 2017	Funnel Cloud	Pine Bluffs	-	A funnel cloud was reported three miles south of Pine Bluffs.
June 2017	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Hail slightly larger than baseball size was observed at Pine Bluffs.
June 2017	Funnel Cloud	Pine Bluffs	-	A funnel cloud was observed five miles west of Pine Bluffs.
July 2016	Flash Flood	Pine Bluffs	-	At least six inches of rapidly flowing water closed several county roads south of Pine Bluffs, as well as some streets in Pine Bluffs.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Pine Bluffs	-	Straight-line wind gusts estimated as high as 90 mph caused significant damage throughout Pine Bluffs. Many trees were uprooted and utility poles toppled. There were extensive power outages.
July 2016	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Golf ball size hail driven by straight-line winds estimated as high as 90 mph caused catastrophic damage to homes, businesses and vehicles at Pine Bluffs. Many trees were uprooted and utility poles toppled. Sheds, windows, roofs and siding were damaged or destroyed. Eighty percent of the town's street lights were damaged. An estimated 500 homes were damaged. Power was out for three hours. Much of the wheat crop was destroyed by the wind and hail. Fortunately, there were no injuries or fatalities.
July 2016	Flash Flood	Pine Bluffs	-	Two to four inches of rain combined with extensive hail drifts and clogged drains from stripped leaves caused flash flooding throughout Pine Bluffs. Many streets were inundated by one to two feet of water.
May 2014	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Quarter size hail was reported in Pine Bluffs.
June 2014	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Half dollar size hail was observed southwest of Pine Bluffs.
June 2014	Flash Flood	Pine Bluffs	-	Up to five inches of rain in an area three miles northwest to five miles north of Pine Bluffs caused flash flooding. Water a foot deep and 30 yards wide was flowing across the 1600 block of County Road 215.
September 2014	Heavy Rain	Pine Bluffs	-	An observer measured 1.82 inches of rain.
June 2014	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Quarter size hail was observed along County Road 161 southwest of Pine Bluffs.
May 2014	Flash Flood	Pine Bluffs	-	Flash flooding was observed along Chivington Draw northwest of Pine Bluffs. Water was running over the Pine Bluffs-Albin Road bridge.
July 2013	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Quarter to golf ball size hail was reported west of Pine Bluffs.
July 2013	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Quarter to ping pong ball size hail was reported west of Pine Bluffs.
July 2013	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Quarter size hail was reported southwest of Pine Bluffs.
July 2013	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Quarter size hail was reported along Interstate 80 between mile markers 397 and 398.
July 2013	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Quarter size hail was reported west of Pine Bluffs.
June 2012	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Half dollar sized hail was reported in Pine Bluffs.
June 2012	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Golf ball sized hail was reported in Pine Bluffs.
May 2012	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Quarter sized hail was reported.
May 2012	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Hen egg sized hail was reported in Pine Bluffs.
May 2012	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Half dollar sized hail with siding damage was reported in Pine Bluffs.
May 2012	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Ping pong ball sized hail was reported in Pine Bluffs.
May 2012	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Golf ball sized hail was reported in Pine Bluffs.
August 2011	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Hail covered the ground and ranged in size from half dollars to golf balls.
August 2011	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Hail ranged in size from quarters to half dollars.
July 2010	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Ground white with hail. Accompanied by strong winds. Gutters full of hail.
May 2010	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	Report recieved via E-Spotter.
May 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Pine Bluffs	-	Tornado spotteed 2 miles southeast of Egbert Exit. Exit 391 of Interstate 80.
May 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Pine Bluffs	-	Tornado on ground near County Road 212.
May 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Pine Bluffs	-	Brief touchdown of tornado along Interstate 80. No reports of damage.
May 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Pine Bluffs	-	Three tornadoes on the ground at the same time.
May 2010	Tornado (EF0)	Pine Bluffs	-	Public report of a tornado along Interstate 80.
May 2008	Tornado (EF0)	Pine Bluffs	-	Tornado tracked northward over open country.
June 2006	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	1 to 1 1/4 inch diameter hail.
May 1999	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	3/4 inch hail accumulated up to two inches deep in and around Pine Bluffs, WY
May 1999	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	1 inch hail fell 8 miles north of Pine Bluffs, WY
July 1998	Tornado (F0)	Pine Bluffs	-	A brief tornado occurred over open country 5 miles north of Pine Bluffs.
July 1997	Tornado (F0)	Pine Bluffs	-	Brief touchdown in open country reported by public.
June 1997	Tornado (F0)	Pine Bluffs	-	Brief touchdown in open country.
July 1994	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	A super-cell developed in southeastern Goshen County early in the evening of the 17th and moved south across extreme eastern Laramie County. Large hail and damaging winds were observed with the storm which broke out all the windows on the north side of a home north of Pine Bluffs. Hail up to the size of baseballs produced significant damage to a mobile home park east of Pine Bluffs. Winds from the storm blew down several power poles in Albin cutting off power there.
June 2022	Hail	Pine Bluffs	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Laramie 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 96000228 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Laramie County	All 60 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.