Mount View

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Mount View is a historic house located at 610 S. The Prairie School home was built from 1911 to 1912 and designed by Glenn Charles McAlister.”
Wikipedia article Mount View (Sheridan, Wyoming), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Sheridan County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 610 S. Jefferson St., Sheridan, 82801
When was it listed? December 1997
Category. building
Census division. Sheridan
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
National Register reference number. 97001534 - 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

125 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 125 fires within 5 miles of Mount View between 1992 and 2020, burning about 435 acres in total. 4 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	58
Debris and open burning	18
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	10
Smoking	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Fireworks	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
23 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
20 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Sheridan County	CARRINGTON FIRE
2 September 2020	Natural	100 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	STAGING
2 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
16 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
12 September 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Sheridan County	BURTON ST.
8 August 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.0 acres	Sheridan County	HAY FIRE

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Mount View: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Uranium, Stone. 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
Unknown	Copper	Occurrence
Unknown	Uranium	Past Producer
Unknown	Stone	Past Producer
Unnamed	Gypsum-Anhydrite	Occurrence
Dygert Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Mullinax Sand & Gravel Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this property

60 of 91 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheridan, the town this property stands in, in 91 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 48 hail, 27 thunderstorm wind, 7 heavy rain, 4 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
August 1998	Flood	Sheridan	$20,000	The Little Goose Creek flooded a small subdivision when a slow moving thunderstorm produced over 1.50 inches of rainfall in 20 minutes. A house basement was reported to have been flooded.
June 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	$10,000	no account filed
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	-	Downed power lines and tree limbs were reported.
July 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	-	Winds were estimated to be 50 to 60 mph just north of Sheridan.
May 2013	Hail	Sheridan	-	Numerous reports of hail ranging in size from pea to quarter were received in and around the Sheridan area.
June 2010	Funnel Cloud	Sheridan	-	A large funnel cloud was reported just north of Sheridan.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	-	A thunderstorm wind gust of 61 mph was measured at the Sheridan ASOS.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	-	Wind gusts of 66 mph were reported at the Sheridan airport.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	-	Wind gusts of 70 mph were estimated in Sheridan.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	-	Wind gusts of 61 mph were reported at the Sheridan airport.
June 2008	Hail	Sheridan	-	Quarter size hail was reported at I-90 and Main Street on the north side of Sheridan.
June 2008	Hail	Sheridan	-	Ping pong ball size hail was reported on the south side of Sheridan at Sheridan College.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	-	Sheridan reported a wind gust of 60 mph.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	-	Wind gusts of 70 mph were estimated in Sheridan.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	-	No damage was reported.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	-	No damage was reported.
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	-	No damage was reported.
July 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	-	Numerous power outages were reported in the city of Sheridan due to 70 mph wind gusts.
June 2007	Flood	Sheridan	-	Five Mile Creek was flooded along with 3rd Avenue West.
June 2007	Heavy Rain	Sheridan	-	Rainfall from the storm was 3.20 inches in 12 hours.
July 2007	Hail	Sheridan	-	Numerous reports received of street flooding along with tree limbs down across the city of Sheridan.
July 2007	Flash Flood	Sheridan	-	During the course of the evening, there were several reports of power lines down, street flooding and six inch diameter trees down across roads.
May 2006	Hail	Sheridan	-	Hail broke windows at spotters' home
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	-	Semi truck blown over on Interstate 90 at Mile Marker 32.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	-	Spotter reported temperature rose from 74 degrees to 88 degrees in 2 minutes coincident with the wind gust
June 2006	Hail	Sheridan	-	Funnel cloud also reported by law enforcement on Interstate 90.
June 2006	Hail	Sheridan	-	Crops were flattened and vehicles were dented.
May 2005	Heavy Rain	Sheridan	-	2.52 inches of rain in Dayton (24 hour total)
May 2005	Heavy Rain	Sheridan	-	3.45 inches of rain in Sheridan
May 2005	Heavy Rain	Sheridan	-	3.92 inches of rain 7SW Sheridan (Storm Total Precipitation, 2.75 inches in 24 hours)
May 2005	Heavy Rain	Sheridan	-	2.45 inches of rain fell in 14 hours in Sheridan
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	-	Burgess Junction RAWS
June 2004	Hail	Sheridan	-	Hail on north side of town
June 2004	Hail	Sheridan	-	Hail on north side of town
June 2004	Tornado (F0)	Sheridan	-	An F0 tornado touched down just north of Sheridan, Wyoming over open range. The tornado formed at 325 pm and dissipated at 350 pm. No damage, injuries, or deaths occurred. The tornado touched down approximately N 44.86 W 107.06 and lifted at N 44.87 W 107.00 with a track of 3.6 miles.
August 2002	Hail	Sheridan	-	Ground whitened by hail
August 2002	Heavy Rain	Sheridan	-	1.50 inches of rain in 45 minutes. Some street flooding briefly occurred but receded quickly.
August 2002	Flash Flood	Sheridan	-	Business owners reported flooded basements downtown.
June 2001	Hail	Sheridan	-	1.00 inch hail drifted and was still present on the morning of the 4th.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	-	65 mph thunderstorm wind gust estimated by spotter.
July 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	-	72 mph thunderstorm wind gust estimated by spotter.
July 2001	Flash Flood	Sheridan	-	Minor flooding over roads...hail floating on water
July 2001	Hail	Sheridan	-	Windshield broken and vehicle damaged
July 2001	Hail	Sheridan	-	Hail drifted over a foot deep
August 1999	Hail	Sheridan	-	Spotter report of nickel size hail.
April 1999	Hail	Sheridan	-	Golf ball sized hail was reported between Sheridan and Ucross
August 1999	Hail	Sheridan	-	Several reports of nickel and dime size hail near Sheridan.
July 1998	Heavy Rain	Sheridan	-	A spotter reported 1.50 inches of rain in one hour from a thunderstorm.
September 2024	Hail	Sheridan	-	no account filed
September 2024	Hail	Sheridan	-	no account filed
September 2024	Hail	Sheridan	-	no account filed
September 2024	Hail	Sheridan	-	no account filed
September 2024	Hail	Sheridan	-	no account filed
September 2024	Hail	Sheridan	-	no account filed
July 2021	Hail	Sheridan	-	no account filed
July 2017	Hail	Sheridan	-	no account filed
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	-	no account filed
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Sheridan	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Sheridan	-	no account filed
June 2013	Hail	Sheridan	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Robinson-Smith House	0.2 miles	2016
Sheridan County Courthouse	0.4 miles	1982
St. Peter's Episcopal Church	0.4 miles	2013
160-166 N. Main	0.6 miles	1982
Holy Name Catholic School	0.6 miles	2013
Trail End	0.7 miles	1970

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97001534 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sheridan County	All 29 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.