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Llli^Iiiili;Ihffi^I^:Jl TITL.E of SURVEY: Wyoming Recreation Comm Form 10-300 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR STATE (Rev. 6-72) NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Wyoming COUNT•Y: £ NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTtDR.I.C -PLACES 1-icTL diuiS '"••» INVENTORY - NOMINATIG N, fJDJR/Mi <y%. FOR NPS USE ONLY PrP ^. X<ty\ ENTRY DATE (Type all entries • complete /agplh'a^i^f<Qls)\^\ DEC B 0 1974 ^^''tt^'-JLiW-lSilK-^ilx. COMMON: |~] "" *">Kj/4 P-j -K. Teapot Rock y^-A ^ T'/O/y^ ; A/ AND/OR HISTORI C: \'' A'- ^^/STp'~> J'^j Teapot Rock V-^>v. s£>7 p. :S::ii£&f Mtft* .- - ' ,^:V:<: Wy V . • \ f ••-V-V- > ::-^ •'-,.-•$: "^' ^:T7~n"\--\\^i'- '•;' V- ' \:;: ; •• !C--..:": STREET ANDNUMBER: •'••..'•: - , ; ^.j-U-^— ^ ' - - ' NE ^k SE %, Section 27, T 38 N, R 79 W. CITY OR TOWN: CONGRESSIONAL D ISTRICT: STATE CODE COUNTY: CODE Wyoming 56 NatronsL 025 ||;||^i^;|^i Sppto i " ; • ', - : : ' ;• • •• : • v CATEGORY STATUS ACCESS.BLE OWNERSHIP (Check One) TO THE PUBLIC 2 D District Q Building D Public P ublic Acquisit on: Q Occupied Yes: O . , 1x1 Restricted Ixl Site Q Structure 12 Private C3 In Process [jjj Jnoccupiea [73 Unrestricted D Object CJ Both | | Being Considered i —i | ^reservation work in progress ' — ' PRESENT USE (Check One or More as Appropriate) [Kl Agricultural Q Government |~~] Park CD Transportation CD Comments Q Commercial D Industrial Q Private Residence CD Other fSoecirv) n Educational CH Mi itary CD Religious 1 I Entertainment CD Museum CD Scientific 1 iiiiiiii SlfPP^Mi Y ; - - : • J \ 4; ^ -; • ' ; ' :;; t . ,;{ i ?. • V: : - •• . • :; - • ;:- r H -6 ; • '= • li'f ^^^^^S!S -^iiS^ ^S^ ? j^=^ OWNER'S NAME: STATE- Mr. John Beaton UJ STREET AND NUMBER: LU Salt Creek Route Cl TY O6 TOWN: STATE: CODF Midwest Wvomine 56 COURTHOUSE, REGISTRY OF DEEDS, ETC: COUNTY: City and County Build ins STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: STATE CODE Casoer Wyoming 56 llli^iiiili;iHffi^i^:Jl TITL.E OF SURVEY: Wyoming Recreation Comm. , Survey of Historic Markers, Sites & Monuments NUMBERENTRY -n O DATE OF SURVEY: 1967 (1973 revised) D Federal (xl State CD County CD Loca C5 7TJ DEPOSITORY FOR SURVEY RECORDS: > z "*- TJ cn Wyoming Recreation Commission C STREET AND NUMBER: mOn o *44 rZ CITY OR TOWN: STATE: CODE Cheyenne Wyoming 56 DATE (Check One; llent Good Fair \\ Deteriorated Ruin [~1 Unexposed CONDITION (Check One) (Check One) Altered | | Unaltered Moved [X] Original Site DESCRIBE THE PRESENT AND ORIGINAL, (if known) PHYSICAL APPEARANCE Teapot Dome is an historic site of national significance over which developed a scandal of national proportions, involving California as well as Wyoming oil fields and involving high officials of the United States government and private enterprise. However, the dome itself is less visible than the rock for which it was named. Therefore, this nomination pertains to the rock which is a visible symbol or reminder of that famous American scandal. Teapot Rock is an eroded sandstone formation located about 25 miles north of the city of Casper, in the southwestern Powder River Basin. No longer the shape of a teapot, the rock today resembles a disfigured human hand. Nevertheless, the formation which once looked like a teapot has given its name to a number of natural and man-made features of the surrounding landscape including a creek, townsite, oil development company, and one of the most famous oil fields in American history. About six miles east of the rock is the southern boundary of the Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve, 9,481 acres of land set aside in 1915 by presidential executive order as United States Naval Oil Reserve Number Three. Teapot Rock and the Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserve are located on the north­ east side of a saddle which lies, generally, between the Big Horn Mountains and the Laramie Range. The saddle separates the Powder River drainage from the North Platte River drainage to the south. The oil reserve is partly surrounded on the west by an escarpment of sandstone broken for a space by low hills that cover the eroded outcrop. The east border is a continuous escarpment of rimrock forming an effective barrier to the vehicular traffic. Teapot Rock itself, 75 feet high and 300 feet in circumference, is situated on a grass-covered knoll a few hundred yards east of U. S. Highway 87 near Teapot Creek, an intermittent stream which empties into Salt Creek. The waters of Salt Creek, in turn, empty into the Powder River and eventually form a part of the Yellowstone, Missouri, and Mississippi rivers. Just north of Teapot Rock and near the base of the hill which it surmounts, is the Beaton residence. The residence and nearby buildings form the head­ quarters for the Beaton Ranch which surrounds the rock. _. .,._.,, PERIOD ("Check One or More as Appropriate) Q Pre-Columbian! Q 16th Century 18th Century 20th Century G 15th Century D 17th Century 19th Century SPECIFIC DATE(S) (If Applicable and Known) AREAS OF SIGNIFICANCE (Check One or More as Appropriate) Abor iginal | | Education (x) Political II Urban Planning | | Prehistoric I | Engineering n Religion/Phi- D Other {-Specify; [X) Historic |Xl Industry losophy | | Agriculture | [ Invention Q] Science | | Architecture |1 Landscape I | Sculpture D Art Architecture | | Social/Human­ [~~| Commerce || Literature itarian | | Communications O Military Q Theater fvl Conservation C] Music [3] Transportation TATEMENT OF SIGNIFICANCE Statement of Significance - 1 On April 22, 1922 the United States Senate voted unanimously, authorizing 2 the Senate Committee on Public Lands and Surveys to investigate the subject of leases upon naval oil reserves. As a result of the investigation and O subsequent civic and criminal trials, one of the most famous scandals in American history was revealed. The Secretary of the Interior in the administration of Warren G. Harding resigned and eventually went to jail U for his part in the scandal, the Secretary of the Navy and the Attorney General resigned, and the names of many other United States Government officials and representatives were dragged through the blackness of the oil scandal. A prominent oil industrialist went to jail for contempt of court, and other oil executives left the country as the threads of the infamous oo •z. episode were unravelled over a period of almost a decade. The scandal which occupied the attention of the American public for so long was named for Teapot Dome, the smallest of three naval reserves in the LU limelight of the scandal. Teapot Dome was not only the least productive of LJ the three naval reserves, it also lay in the shadow of Wyoming's greatest oil pool, the Salt Creek field. Since the physical proximity of one field to the other has caused some confusion and since, in the history of Wyoming oil development Salt Creek deserves a higher place than Teapot Dome, mention should be made of the former. An elliptical area extending for ten miles from northwest to southwest and covering about 20,000 acres, the Salt Creek field lies just north of and adjacent to the Teapot Dome Reserve in central Wyoming. It was one of the first major oil fields discovered in the Rocky Mountain area. Men such as Cy Iba began their activities there in the 1880's although Iba himself did not live long enough to profit from his work. Production at Salt Creek was begun in 1889 when a ten barrel-a-day well was dug into the Shannon sand level at about 1,000 feet. As development continued foreign capital was invested in the field, and pipelines were laid from Salt Creek to Casper where a refinery was built on the east edge of town. By 1912 the Midwest Oil Company, which eventually became the biggest producer in the Salt Creek field, was established. In 1913, during only its second year of operation, the company derived aprdvit from its holdings in the remote oil field. The geologic sedimentary unit called the First Wall Creek Sand had been reached and a great future appeared in store for Salt Creek. However, competition from m i;i^p: Bl:5 tlOGf? AFHICAL REFERiNCeS • .-;;, : ;: ".• : :: ^ ; ; -: -;i>--y:;;:;: --i^^^^^^f ^^^ ':|^^iil^^^' See Addendum llll|l:<3ti?:A-f'HrCAL;l5 ATA . ; , ; - ! : - . - •• : ; - f^*-:.. : • ;. : : i ; 1 ^ \ ^ v^ ^M^:^. '* LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE COORDINATES LATITUDE AND LONGIT'JDE COORDINATES DEFINING A RECTANGLE LOCATING THE PROPERTY ' ) DEFINING THu C tis THR POIN 1 OF A PROPERTY 1j OF LESS THAN TFN ACRES CORNER LATITUDE LONGITUDE LATITUDE LONGITUDE Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds Degrees Minutes Seconds NW ° ° 0 o NE ° ° 43 14 00 106 18 39 SE ° ° sw __?_•• ° 1 APPROXIMATE ACREAGE OF NOMINATED PROPERTY: L6SS than 10 B.C1CBS |LIST ALL STATES AND COUNTIES FOR PROPERTIES OVERLAPPING STATE OR COUNTY BOUNDARIES rn STATE: CODE COUNTY CODE rn STATE: CODE COUNTY: s^\ \ j / 7">"» CODE //h>^± ^:-' £. ^ X/A--/ ; \ STATE: CODE COUN/rY>.//S/ "tLt/Vf/J/ifPr-M /r-fl >xtV-^-^"* ———CODE / / f* \ i STATE: CODE COlilR-T/Y: "tP £ 5 IQJ* |*H CODE m NATI~«.. M c: NAME AND TITLE: \ ^N w ' Cn £ J Mark Junge, Historian X//f>> _^<<CV> o ORGANIZATION \^ ' ft/ X' \^- '"" DATE Wyoming Recreation Commission June L 1974 STREET AND NUMBER: 604 East 25th Street CITY OR TOWN: STATE CODE Cheyenne Wyoming 56 m^^^i^M^.^^^Mi^ii^&^^^ As the designated State Liaison Officer for the Na­ I hereby certify that this property is included in the tional Historic Preservation Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-665), I hereby nominate this property for inclusion National Register, in the National Register and certify that it has been ^ A^ ^r - evaluated according to the c-iteria and procedures set //jKl^A^ ^ Uc^:^ forth by the National Park Service. The recommended Director, Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation level of significance of this nomination is: National [H State Q Local Q DEC 3 0 B74 D-jte Name \~OUuJ ff IfBMj ATTEST: o Pauf H.
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