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Natrona County, Wyoming

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41historic places

—earliest paper

1888formed

79,955pop. 2020

22cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 41 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Casper, Alcova, Arminto.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

21 of 41 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

41 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Alcova Redoubt	Alcova	Site	2021
Archeological Site No. 48NA83	Arminto	Site	1994
Big Horn Hotel	Arminto	Building	1978
Bishop House	Casper	Building	2001
Bridger Immigrant Road-Waltman Crossing	Casper	Site	1975
Casper Army Air Base	Casper	District	2001
Casper Buffalo Trap	Casper	Site	1974
Casper Downtown Historic District	Casper	District	2016
Casper Federal Building	Casper	Building	1998
Casper Fire Department Station No. 1	Casper	Building	1993
Casper Motor Company-Natrona Motor Company	Casper	Building	1994
Chicago and Northwestern Railroad Depot	Powder River	Building	1988
Church of Saint Anthony	Casper	Building	1997
Consolidated Royalty Building	Casper	Building	1993
DUX Bessemer Bend Bridge	Bessemer Bend	Structure	1985
Dean Morgan Junior High School	Casper	Building	2016
Edness Kimball Wilkins No. 1 Site	Evansville	Site	2015
Elks Lodge No. 1353	Casper	Building	1997
Fort Caspar	Casper	District	1971
Fort Caspar (Boundary Increase)	Casper	District	1976
Grant Street Grocery and Market	Casper	Building	2008
Independence Rock NHL	Casper	Site	1966
Martin's Cove	Casper	Site	1977
Masonic Temple	Casper	Building	2005
Midwest Oil Company Hotel	Casper	Building	1983
Natrona County High School	Casper	Building	1994
North Casper Clubhouse	Casper	Building	1994
Odd Fellows Building	Casper	Building	2009
Ohio Oil Company Building	Casper	Building	2001
Ormsby Home	Casper	Building	2025
Pathfinder Dam	Casper	Structure	1971
Pathfinder Dam Historic District	Alcova	District	2015
Rialto Theater	Casper	Building	1993
Roosevelt School	Casper	Building	1997
South Wolcott Street Historic District	Casper	District	1988
Split Rock, Twin Peaks	Muddy Gap	Site	1976
Stone Ranch Stage Station	Casper	Building	1982
Teapot Rock	Midwest	Site	1974
Townsend Hotel	Casper	Building	1983
Tribune Building	Casper	Building	1994
Turner-Cottman Building	Casper	Building	2015

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Natrona was formed in 1888 (1888-03-09) from Carbon.

NATRONA created by Wyoming Territory from CARBON; NATRONA not fully organized, attached to CARBON for administrative and judicial purposes.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Natrona County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
1,094	1,785	14,635	23,858	31,437	49,623	71,856	66,533	79,955

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

22 cemeteries and 4 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 22 of 22 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Alcova Cemetery	42.56506	-106.72133
Annis Ranch Cemetery	42.48364	-106.99489
Arminto Cemetery	43.17818	-107.25341
Crimson Dawn Cemetery	42.7312	-106.28684
Eadsville Cemetery	42.72927	-106.36086
Edgerton Cemetery	43.41844	-106.26061
Evansvlle Gravesite	42.86447	-106.26868
Fort Casper Post Cemetery	42.83626	-106.3717
Fougstedt Cemetery	42.75131	-106.32344
Frederick Richard Fulkerson Gravesite	42.4439	-107.20682
Freeland Cemetery	42.65062	-106.39658
Highland Cemetery	42.84392	-106.30485
Hiland Cemetery	43.11766	-107.34503
Independence Rock Burial Ground	42.49062	-107.13108
Midwest Cemetery	43.41755	-106.34045
Natrona Memorial Gardens	42.88276	-106.43852
Old Alcova Cemetery	42.57166	-106.70736
Old Pioneer Cemetery	42.83643	-106.37011
Oregon Trail State Veterans Cemetery	42.87302	-106.25944
Pathfinder Cemetery	42.48079	-106.8424
Red Buttes Burial Ground	42.82591	-106.4398
Waltman Cemetery	43.06833	-107.17745

Historical populated places — 4 of 4

Name	Lat	Lon
Bessemer	42.77524	-106.53142
Blue Hill	43.30414	-106.67282
Eadsville	42.73191	-106.35392
Salt Creek	43.34886	-106.32586

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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