Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 15 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1901.
From the record
“The Gilman Ranch is a historic ranch and stagecoach station on the Bradshaw Trail, in Riverside County, California, United States. The ranch is best known for its association with the manhunt of Willie Boy, a Paiute Indian who killed the father of Carlota, the woman he was forbidden to marry because they were cousins.”
Wikipedia article Gilman Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 90 National Register listings published here for Riverside County · listed in 1977 · category: District.
National Register reference number.76000508- 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.
Then and now
1901 to 1996
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19011996
Fires near this property
1,372 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 1,372 fires within 5 miles of Gilman Ranch
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 80,800 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 224 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
616
Equipment and vehicle use
225
Arson/incendiarism
224
Smoking
96
Misuse of fire by a minor
92
Debris and open burning
64
Natural
13
Recreation and ceremony
13
Fireworks
13
Power generation/transmission/distribution
12
Firearms and explosives use
4
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
9 September 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
FREEWAY
9 September 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.0 acres
California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Gilman Ranch: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer, 1 prospect.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Tungsten, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Banning, the town this property stands in, in 18 storm reports between 1999 and 2024: 6 wildfire, 6 flash flood, 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning.
The reports record 7 injuries. 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.
A wild fire rapidly burnt 1523 acres and was still not contained as August ended. Four out buildings, a house, a sailboat, three cars, and several utility power poles and lines were destroyed. Highway 243 was closed between Pine Cove and Banning.
A large thunderstorm cell progressed south off of the San Gorgonio Mountain into Banning on July 7th around 1100 PST. It brought strong winds to the Banning area, in particular, Sylvan Park. Numerous trees were damaged from winds in the park. After a storm survey, the winds in Sylvan Park were estimated to be 56 knots from the thunderstorm.
CHP reports flooded roadway and debris including rocks on Highway 243 south of Banning. Northbound traffic was closed. Further up the mountain off of 243, the Silent Valley RV Park had stranded residents due debris flows and flooding.
This fire began on August 28 and was not fully contained until September 2. A total of 1562 acres were burnt. No additional property damage was reported with this fire.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
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.
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