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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
Murphy Well Corral
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1910.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. Nipton Rd., Nipton, 92364
- 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. 100004594 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
15 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Murphy Well Corral between 1992 and 2016, burning about 104 acres in total. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | California Desert District | LOST |
| 10 September 2012 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Mojave National Preserve | TRACK |
| 6 August 1996 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Mojave National Preserve | ORANGE |
| 5 August 2016 | Natural | under an acre | California Desert District | NIPTON |
| 5 August 1993 | Natural | 102 acres | Joshua Tree National Monument | LANDFARE |
| 29 August 2016 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | California Desert District | MONKEY |
| 13 August 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Mojave National Preserve | WILDHORSE |
| 12 August 2014 | Natural | under an acre | California Desert District | NIPTON |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Murphy Well Corral: 1 prospect, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Mercury, Silver. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cogs Group | Silver | Prospect | ||
| Jack Claim | Tungsten, Mercury | Occurrence | Cinnabar, Scheelite, Wolframite | |
| Jack Claim | Mercury, Tungsten | Unknown |
Storms near this property
9 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nipton, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1998 and 2020: 7 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 1998 | Flash Flood | Nipton | $25,000 | no account filed |
| July 1999 | Flash Flood | Nipton | $5,000 | The California Highway Patrol reported that the Nipton Road was flooded out between Interstate 15 and the town of Nipton. Nearby Cima Road was also closed with a car trapped in a wash. There were no injuries. |
| August 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Nipton | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 2020 | Flash Flood | Nipton | $1,000 | Nipton Road was flooded. |
| September 2009 | Flash Flood | Nipton | - | Water and debris flowed across Nipton Rd. at the Nipton Trading Post. |
| September 2004 | Flash Flood | Nipton | - | Flash flooding near Nipton caused Nipton Rd to be completely washed out and impassable. |
| September 2004 | Flash Flood | Nipton | - | Flash flooding caused several roads to be closed near the town of Nipton. Rocks and debris covered the road in several locations. |
| September 2004 | Flash Flood | Nipton | - | Law enforcement reported Ivanpah and Nipton roads were closed due to flash flooding. |
| August 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Nipton | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
12 surveysUnited 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.
- 1910 USGS Ivanpah quadrangle1:250000
- 1912 USGS Ivanpah quadrangle1:250000 - 5 printings
- 1942 USGS Ivanpah quadrangle1:250000
- 1947 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1948 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000
- 1954 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1955 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Ivanpah quadrangle1:62500 - 3 printings
- 1958 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1960 USGS Kingman quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1983 USGS Nipton quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Ivanpah quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004594 in Record Group 79. |
| San Bernardino County | All 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.