Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
From the record
“Post Office-Green River is a Classical Revival architecture building designed by James Wetmore and Thomas Hyrum in Green River, Wyoming that was built in 1931. It was built under the Elliot Act, a pre-New Deal economic recovery plan.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office-Green River, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 28 National Register listings published here for Sweetwater County · listed in 1997 · category: Building.
Also known as. Historic US Post Offices in Wyoming, 1900-1941, TR
Census division. Green River North
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number.97001535- 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
71 since 1995
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 71 fires within 5 miles of US Post Office-Green River
between 1995 and 2020, burning about 330 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 1 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
28
Fireworks
11
Recreation and ceremony
7
Natural
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
6
Railroad operations and maintenance
5
Equipment and vehicle use
3
Debris and open burning
1
Smoking
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of US Post Office-Green River: 3 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Sodium Carbonate, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Green River, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1998 and 2025: 9 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 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.
Several power poles were reported down west-northwest of Green River toward State Highway 372. The wind gusts were associated with weak convection and not a thunderstorm.
There were numerous reports of one inch diameter hail across Green River and Rock Springs. Trees were stripped of leaves and the hail accumulated on the ground to a depth of a couple of inches.
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
5 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.
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.
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