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Ralston Community Clubhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Ralston Community Clubhouse was built in 1914 as a community school in Ralston, Wyoming. It was abandoned as a school in 1922, when Ralston consolidated its school with the neighboring Powell school district.”

Wikipedia article Ralston Community Clubhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. 969 Carbon St., Ralston, 82435
  • When was it listed? July 1998
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Powell
  • National Register reference number. 98000907 - 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

27 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Ralston Community Clubhouse between 2002 and 2020, burning about 36 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
Debris and open burning13
Fireworks5
Recreation and ceremony3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Natural1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

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
8 August 2002Natural1.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
22 August 2017Equipment and vehicle use1.0 acresPark County152
16 August 2002Recreation and ceremony7.0 acresWyoming State Forestrynot named
11 August 2018Debris and open burning2.0 acresPark County160
1 August 2018Fireworksunder an acrePark County149
9 July 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresPark County121
4 July 2018Fireworksunder an acrePark County123
4 July 2017Fireworks1.0 acresPark County110

Every fire recorded in Park 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 Ralston Community Clubhouse: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sulfur. 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
UnknownSulfurUnknown

Every working recorded in Park County

Storms near this property

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ralston, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2013: 2 hail, 1 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2013HailRalston-A combination of hail, wind, and heavy rain caused extensive damage to crops in the Powell Valley. Most of the damage occurred to the barley crop, but beans and beets were also impacted. The storm produced one-half inch diameter hail, wind gusts to 51 mph, and nearly one-half inch of rain in less than 15 minutes.
August 2009Thunderstorm WindRalston-Thunderstorm outflow winds topped out at 61 mph in Ralston.
June 2004HailRalston-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Park 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

2 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Heart Mountain Relocation Center5.5 miles1985
US Post Office-Powell Main5.7 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98000907 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Park CountyAll 38 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.