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One of 16 National Register listings published here for Newton County · listed in 2023 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Valley Y Ranch
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2023.
The listing
- Address. North of the jct. of AR 74 and Steel Creek Rd., Ponca, 72641
- When was it listed? October 2023
- Category. district
- Township. Low Gap township
- National Register reference number. 100009410 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
76 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 76 fires within 5 miles of Valley Y Ranch between 1994 and 2020, burning about 2,999 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 18 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 23 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 1 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5.0 acres | Buffalo National River | BISHOP FIRE |
| 9 August 2011 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Buffalo National River | RUNNING CREEK |
| 6 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 13 August 2012 | Natural | 2.3 acres | Ozark-St. Francis National Forests | GRASSY POINT |
| 8 July 2012 | Natural | 3.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 8 July 2012 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
| 6 July 2012 | Arson/incendiarism | 40 acres | Arkansas Forestry Commission | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Valley Y Ranch: 15 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Zinc, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ben Heuer Property | Kaolin | Past Producer | ||
| Davidson Prospect | Iron, Manganese | Prospect | ||
| Unk | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Bennett | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Brewer | Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Canton Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Chimney Rock Mine | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Cross Prospect | Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Kilgore | Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Mmcelhaney | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
12 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ponca, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1994 and 2022: 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 hail, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2015 | Flash Flood | Ponca | $50,000 | Heavy rainfall caused rapid rises on the Buffalo River near Ponca. The river rose over 14 ft in a short period. Cars near the river in campgrounds were flooded. |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ponca | $20,000 | A tree was down on a car on Arkansas Highway 43 south of Ponca. |
| May 1994 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ponca | $5,000 | Thunderstorm winds downed several trees. |
| July 1995 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ponca | - | Thunderstorm winds downed some large tree limbs. |
| April 2022 | Hail | Ponca | - | no account filed |
| July 2014 | Hail | Ponca | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Ponca | - | no account filed |
| May 2008 | Hail | Ponca | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ponca | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ponca | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ponca | - | no account filed |
| April 1996 | Hail | Ponca | - | no account filed |
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
5 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Big Buffalo Valley Historic District | 2.2 miles | 1987 |
 | Flowers Cabin | 3.1 miles | 2021 |
 | Villines Mill | 4.7 miles | 1974 |
 | Parker-Hickman Farm Historic District | 7.1 miles | 1987 |
 | Little Buffalo River Bridge | 7.9 miles | 1995 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009410 in Record Group 79. |
| Newton County | All 16 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.