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Piute Dry Corral

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.

From the record

One of 98 National Register listings published here for San Bernardino County · listed in 2021 · category: Structure.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. Ten miles E. of Lanfair Rd., Goffs
  • When was it listed? April 2021
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Historic Ranching Resources within Mojave National Preserve MPS; Historic Ranching Resources within Mojave National Preserve MPS
  • Census division. Newberry Springs-Baker
  • National Register reference number. 100004582 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

7 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Piute Dry Corral between 1994 and 2013, burning about 590 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 September 2004Missing data/not specified/undetermined12 acresMojave National PreservePIUTE
21 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undetermined18 acresMojave National PreserveCUBBE
25 August 2013Naturalunder an acreMojave National PreserveLANFAIR
31 July 1996Natural2.0 acresMojave National PreserveBARBER
27 July 1996Natural510 acresMojave National PreservePIUTE
1 July 1994Natural3.0 acresCalifornia Desert DistrictTOUNGSTON
15 March 1998Recreation and ceremony45 acresLake Mead National Recreation AreaCCASSIST01

Every fire recorded in San Bernardino County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Piute Dry Corral: 3 prospects, 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 plant. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Tungsten, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silver, Silver, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Lord and IrishGold, Tungsten, Zinc, Copper, Lead, SilverPast Producer
Unnamed ProspectSilver, GoldOccurrence
Unnamed ProspectIron, SilverProspect
UnnamedGold, CopperPast ProducerGold
Unnamed ProspectGold, CopperProspect
Unnamed ProspectGold, CopperProspect
RattlesnakeGoldPlant

Every working recorded in San Bernardino County

Storms near this property

6 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goffs, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2006 and 2025: 6 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2025Flash FloodGoffs$10,000Goffs Road was closed from Highway 95 to Interstate 40 due to flooding which damaged the road.
July 2018Flash FloodGoffs$2,000Flash flooding closed Goffs Road.
October 2015Flash FloodGoffs$2,000Goffs Road was closed due to two feet of water flowing over the road.
June 2025Flash FloodGoffs$1,000Goffs Road was flooded and closed.
August 2023Flash FloodGoffs$1,000Flash flooding closed Goffs Rd from I-40 to Highway 95.
October 2006Flash FloodGoffs-Several roads in eastern San Bernardino County, including U.S. Hwy. 95, Needles Hwy, and Goffs Rd. were closed due to flooding.

Every storm recorded in San Bernardino County

Maps showing this location

12 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 100004582 in Record Group 79.
San Bernardino CountyAll 98 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.