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Photograph of Snake River Land Company Residence and Office
Photograph by National Park Service inventory, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Snake River Land Company Residence and Office

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Snake River Land Company Residence and Office are structures associated with John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s acquisition of land in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, United States.”

Wikipedia article Snake River Land Company Residence and Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 65 National Register listings published here for Teton County · listed in 2006 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. West bank of Snake R. 1/4 mi. N of Moran Jct., Moose, 83013
  • When was it listed? July 2006
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Grand Teton National Park MPS
  • Census division. Jackson Hole
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • National Register reference number. 98001036 - 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Snake River Land Company Residence and Office between 1992 and 2020, burning about 199 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 2 were 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
Natural41
Recreation and ceremony8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Arson/incendiarism2
Smoking1

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 September 1994Naturalunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkLUCKY
6 September 2007Natural9.0 acresGrand Teton National ParkMATILDA
4 September 2016Naturalunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkLOZIER HILL
29 September 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkPIE PLATE
21 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkELK RANCH
13 September 2001Naturalunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkCHIEF
12 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkPCHUNTCAMP
11 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreGrand Teton National ParkDWYER

Every fire recorded in Teton County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Snake River Land Company Residence and Office: 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Gold, Uranium, Copper. 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
Buffalo Fork ProspectCopperOccurrence
Cowboy LodeUraniumOccurrence
UnknownPumiceProspect
UnknownGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in Teton County

Storms near this property

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moose, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2007LightningMoose1 hurtno account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindMoose$10,000Several trees were downed in a swath from the Death Canyon Trailhead east across the Moose-Wilson Road. Motorists were trapped on the road by fallen trees which were blocking passage. One vehicle was damaged near Death Canyon due to a fallen tree.
July 2024Thunderstorm WindMoose-A 60 mph wind gust was reported at the weather station at the Teton Saddle.
July 2013HailMoose-Nickel sized hail was seen at Moose by a trained spotter.
August 2003WildfireMoose-no account filed
July 2002HailMoose-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Teton 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

4 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
Jackson Lake Ranger Station3.5 miles1990
Brinkerhoff, The4.1 miles1990
Cunningham Cabin4.9 miles1973
Triangle X Barn6.0 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 98001036 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Teton CountyAll 65 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.