Horse Valley Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Horse Valley Ranch, also known as Waring Ranch, near Littlefield, Arizona, dates from 1916. A 28.5-acre (11.5 ha) area of the ranch was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.”
Wikipedia article Horse Valley Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 64 National Register listings published here for Mohave County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Littlefield
When was it listed? April 1984
Category. building
Census division. North Mohave
National Register reference number. 84000781 - 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Horse Valley Ranch between 1992 and 2018, burning about 68 acres in total. 60 started naturally. 1 was 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
Natural	60
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 September 2000	Natural	2.0 acres	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	GRN SPRG N
7 August 1994	Natural	1.0 acres	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	AMOS
4 August 1992	Natural	1.0 acres	Arizona Strip Field Office	KELLY DAM
3 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Strip Field Office	SEABASS
25 August 2000	Natural	5.0 acres	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	PINEVALLEY
22 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	SUICIDE
19 August 2012	Natural	under an acre	Lake Mead National Recreation Area	DELLENBAUGH
18 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Arizona Strip Field Office	KELLY DAM

Every fire recorded in Mohave County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Horse Valley Ranch: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Ut Dept Hwys Gravel Pit No.27052	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mohave County

Storms near this property

19 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Littlefield, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1994 and 2025: 12 thunderstorm wind, 4 flash flood, 2 tornado, 1 hail. 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
July 2012	Flash Flood	Littlefield	$100,000	Flash flooding washed out several back country roads in the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument.
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Littlefield	$50,000	Thunderstorm winds blew down numerous trees, some of which blocked roads and some of which fell on power lines. Trampolines were also blown into roads.
August 2024	Flash Flood	Littlefield	$20,000	Very heavy rain in the mountains above Littlefield flowed down into the community, leaving the Farm/Fleet Rd underpass under I-15 flooded with approximately 10 feet of water. Other roads in the area were also flooded, including the northbound lanes of I-15 near mile marker 9.
September 2014	Flash Flood	Littlefield	$10,000	Major flash flooding impacted the Virgin River Gorge. Interstate 15 was closed for several hours due to water and debris over the highway. Many waterfalls flowed off the higher terrain.
July 2022	Flash Flood	Littlefield	$1,000	I-15 southbound was flooded near Littlefield.
August 2022	Tornado (EFU)	Littlefield	-	Several photos from different angles showed a tornado over the open desert. The location is estimated.
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Littlefield	-	Two stations recorded gusts to 61 mph at the same time.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Littlefield	-	This gust occurred at the Olaf Knolls RAWS site.
September 1995	Hail	Littlefield	-	Heavy rain accompanied golf ball and pea-sized hail which lead to flooding of an underpass along Interstate 15 and also an unpaved road.
April 1994	Tornado (F0)	Littlefield	-	An observer reported the weak tornado skipping along the ground for about 10 minutes. The tornado moved through open territory with no damage reported.
July 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Littlefield	-	Winds gusted to 70 mph during a severe thunderstorm.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Littlefield	-	no account filed
April 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Littlefield	-	no account filed
August 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Littlefield	-	no account filed
July 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Littlefield	-	no account filed
October 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Littlefield	-	no account filed
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Littlefield	-	no account filed
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Littlefield	-	no account filed
August 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Littlefield	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Mohave 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84000781 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mohave County	All 64 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.