National Register of Historic Places listings in Big Horn County, Wyoming

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Big Horn County, Wyoming.

Location of Big Horn County in Wyoming

This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Big Horn County, Wyoming, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.[1]

There are 23 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, 1 of which is a National Historic Landmark.


          This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted June 28, 2024.[2]

Contents: Counties in Wyoming
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Current listings

[3]Name on the RegisterImageDate listed[4]Location City or townDescription
1American Legion Hall, Post 32
American Legion Hall, Post 32
June 27, 2014
(#14000386)
130 N. 5th St.
44°29′26″N 108°03′15″W / 44.490521°N 108.054138°W / 44.490521; -108.054138 (American Legion Hall, Post 32)
GreybullMeeting hall significant as a key gathering place in Greybull 1935–1959 for a panoply of social clubs and organizations, as well as civic use as a polling place and overflow classroom for the public schools.[5]
2Bad Pass Trail
Bad Pass Trail
October 29, 1975
(#75000215)
East of Lovell along the Bighorn River
44°56′00″N 108°15′00″W / 44.933333°N 108.25°W / 44.933333; -108.25 (Bad Pass Trail)
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation AreaRemnants of a cairn-marked trail between the Bighorn Basin and the northern plains, established by Native Americans in antiquity and used by their descendents and mountain men into the mid-1830s. Extends into Carbon County, Montana.[6]
3Basin Republican-Rustler Printing Building
Basin Republican-Rustler Printing Building
July 19, 1976
(#76001948)
409 W. C St.
44°22′51″N 108°02′23″W / 44.380875°N 108.039636°W / 44.380875; -108.039636 (Basin Republican-Rustler Printing Building)
BasinNewspaper office with vintage equipment, active 1924–1974 printing the continuation of the Bighorn Basin's first newspaper, established in 1889 by Joseph Newton DeBarthe—a key record of local history.[7]
4Bear Creek Ranch Medicine WheelMay 4, 1987
(#87000661)
Address restricted[8]
Greybull
5Big Horn Academy Historic District
Big Horn Academy Historic District
March 26, 1992
(#92000285)
25 and 35 E. 1st S.
44°52′57″N 108°28′06″W / 44.882456°N 108.468398°W / 44.882456; -108.468398 (Big Horn Academy Historic District)
CowleyThe Bighorn Basin's first high school and a long-serving community venue, with a 1916 classroom building initially constructed as a Mormon parochial boarding school, and a 1936 gymnasium funded by the Works Progress Administration.[9]
6Black Mountain Archeological DistrictJuly 2, 1987
(#86003459)
Summit and southeastern slopes of Black Mountain[10]
44°31′24″N 107°39′42″W / 44.523333°N 107.661667°W / 44.523333; -107.661667 (Black Mountain Archeological District)
ShellTwo chert quarries, six rock shelters, and three campsites spanning the early Paleo-Indian to late Prehistoric periods.[11]
7Bridger Immigrant Road-Dry Creek CrossingJanuary 17, 1975
(#75001900)
26 miles east of Cody on U.S. Route 14
44°27′40″N 108°31′48″W / 44.461096°N 108.530059°W / 44.461096; -108.530059 (Bridger Immigrant Road-Dry Creek Crossing)
Cody vicinityStill-visible fragment of a wagon route blazed by Jim Bridger in 1864 for gold rush miners to reach Virginia City, Montana; an alternative to the more direct but riskier Bozeman Trail.[12]
8Carey Block
Carey Block
December 18, 2009
(#09001110)
602 Greybull Ave.
44°29′21″N 108°03′20″W / 44.489115°N 108.055554°W / 44.489115; -108.055554 (Carey Block)
GreybullProminent and architecturally sophisticated 1916 commercial building with a 1933 car dealership and repair shop addition, encapsulating Greybull's oil boom prosperity and later diversification through auto tourism.[13]
9EJE Bridge over Shell Creek
EJE Bridge over Shell Creek
February 22, 1985
(#85000415)
County Road CN9-57
44°32′05″N 107°48′08″W / 44.534676°N 107.802305°W / 44.534676; -107.802305 (EJE Bridge over Shell Creek)
ShellWyoming's longest Warren pony truss bridge, built 1920, exemplifying an early Warren variation.[14] Removed and replaced in 2005.[citation needed]
10EJP County Line Bridge
EJP County Line Bridge
February 22, 1985
(#85000412)
Road CN9-60
44°09′59″N 107°41′02″W / 44.166441°N 107.684005°W / 44.166441; -107.684005 (EJP County Line Bridge)
Hyattville1917 camelback pony truss bridge, Wyoming's longest, and its only road bridge jointly funded by two counties, on the mistaken belief that it crossed a county boundary.[14]
11EJZ Bridge over Shoshone River
EJZ Bridge over Shoshone River
February 22, 1985
(#85000413)
County Road CN9-111
44°50′18″N 108°26′05″W / 44.838253°N 108.434838°W / 44.838253; -108.434838 (EJZ Bridge over Shoshone River)
LovellDistinctive four-span example (built 1925–26) of the Warren pony truss bridges commissioned by the Wyoming Highway Department in the 1920s and 1930s.[14]
12Hanson SiteDecember 15, 1978
(#78002817)
Address restricted[8]
Shell vicinityPaleo-Indian camping ground on either side of an arroyo, with extensive evidence of stone tool manufacturing, fires, animal bone fragments, and Folsom tradition lodges.[15]
13Hyart Theater
Hyart Theater
January 8, 2009
(#08001304)
251 E. Main St.
44°50′16″N 108°23′17″W / 44.837812°N 108.388134°W / 44.837812; -108.388134 (Hyart Theater)
LovellOne of Wyoming's few intact early-1950s movie theaters, built with state-of-the-art features in 1950.[16]
14Lower Shell School House
Lower Shell School House
February 7, 1985
(#85000247)
U.S. Route 14
44°31′16″N 107°56′06″W / 44.52124°N 107.934897°W / 44.52124; -107.934897 (Lower Shell School House)
Greybull1903 one-room school, one of Wyoming's few intact examples of the once-essential facilities built to provide education and community meeting space in frontier communities.[17]
15M L Ranch
M L Ranch
July 15, 1992
(#92000836)
Off Alternate U.S. Route 14 near the eastern shore of Bighorn Lake
44°49′46″N 108°09′34″W / 44.829444°N 108.159444°W / 44.829444; -108.159444 (M L Ranch)
Bighorn Canyon National Recreation AreaFour surviving buildings of an 1883 ranch, associated with Henry Clay Lovell (1838–1903) and the development of open range cattle ranching in the Bighorn Basin in 1880s and 1890s. Now an interpretive site.[18]
16Medicine Lodge Creek Site
Medicine Lodge Creek Site
July 5, 1973
(#73001926)
4800 County Road 52
44°17′57″N 107°32′28″W / 44.2991°N 107.5411°W / 44.2991; -107.5411 (Medicine Lodge Creek Site)
Hyattville vicinitySheltered wintering site with rock art and 12 habitation layers spanning from 8300 years ago to the early contact period.[19] Preserved and interpreted as Medicine Lodge State Archeological Site.
17Medicine Wheel-Medicine Mountain
Medicine Wheel-Medicine Mountain
April 16, 1969
(#69000184)
Near the summit of Medicine Mountain[20]
44°49′34″N 107°55′18″W / 44.826111°N 107.921667°W / 44.826111; -107.921667 (Medicine Wheel-Medicine Mountain)
Kane vicinitySignificant and well-preserved Native American sacred complex in use for at least 7000 years, comprising a 75-foot-diameter (23 m) medicine wheel, archaeological sites, and traditional use areas.[21]
18Paint Rock Canyon Archeological Landscape DistrictJuly 12, 1990
(#80004881)
Address restricted[8]
Hyattville vicinityLargely undeveloped canyonland with rock shelters and campsites spanning the early Paleo-Indian to late Prehistoric periods.[22]
19Rairden Bridge
Rairden Bridge
February 22, 1985
(#85000414)
Adjacent to Rairden Ln. over the Bighorn River
44°11′39″N 107°54′55″W / 44.194129°N 107.915403°W / 44.194129; -107.915403 (Rairden Bridge)
Manderson vicinityThe longest single-span truss bridge ever built by a Wyoming county, and one of the state's only two remaining pin-connected Pennsylvania trusses. Erected in 1916 and abandoned in place in 1979.[14]
20Shell Community Hall
Shell Community Hall
January 3, 2022
(#100007266)
201 Smith Ave.
44°32′08″N 107°46′42″W / 44.535573°N 107.77841°W / 44.535573; -107.77841 (Shell Community Hall)
ShellMunicipal event venue built 1933–34 with Civil Works Administration funding, exemplifying the enduring benefit of New Deal programs for small Wyoming communities.[23]
21Southsider ShelterAugust 1, 2012
(#12000470)
Address restricted[8]
Ten Sleep vicinityRock shelter with five well-stratified occupation layers spanning the early Paleo-Indian to late Prehistoric periods, illuminating the area's chronology of projectile points and early subsistence strategies.[24]
22US Post Office-Basin Main
US Post Office-Basin Main
May 19, 1987
(#87000779)
402 W. C St.
44°22′53″N 108°02′22″W / 44.381454°N 108.039409°W / 44.381454; -108.039409 (US Post Office-Basin Main)
BasinExemplary small Neoclassical post office, built in 1919 to complete Basin's civic square during the city's peak period of growth.[25]
23US Post Office-Greybull Main
US Post Office-Greybull Main
May 22, 1987
(#87000780)
401 Greybull Ave.
44°29′19″N 108°03′10″W / 44.488612°N 108.052889°W / 44.488612; -108.052889 (US Post Office-Greybull Main)
Greybull1939 post office, one of five in Wyoming with Section of Painting and Sculpture artwork, symbolizing the extensive New Deal public works and federal presence benefiting small communities.[26]

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