Built in 1879. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
From the record
“The Holly SS Ranch Barn, or Double S Ranch Barn, at 407 West Vinson in Holly, Colorado, was built in 1879. It is located south of the railroad tracks on the south side of Holly.”
Wikipedia article Holly SS Ranch Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 16 National Register listings published here for Prowers County · listed in 2004 · category: Building · built in 1879.
National Register reference number.04000068- 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
11 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Holly SS Ranch Barn
between 1994 and 2013, burning about 447 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony
4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Arson/incendiarism
1
Natural
1
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Holly SS Ranch Barn: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 unknown.
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Holly, the town this property stands in, in 103 storm reports between 1994 and 2024: 73 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 5 tornado, 2 flash flood.
The reports record 2 deaths and 9 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.
South of Holly, a powerful microburst flipped over five center pivot irrigation systems both west and east of Highway 89. Two grain bins were destroyed and one severely damaged. Several vehicles at houses just north of the grain bins had their windows blown out, and a camper trailer was toppled on its side. Twenty power poles had to be replaced along County Road DD west of Highway 89 around a mile south of Holly.
Time of occurrence. Additional information regarding damage in Holly, Colorado which occurred late this afternoon. 15-20 homes with visible roof damage, shingles blown off. 7 large trees blown down.
Trained spotters reported a tornado south of Holly, CO. The tornado lasted 5-7 minutes before lifting near the town of Holly. No damage reported as the tornado moved through open fields.
A slow-moving landspout tornado occurred over a wheat field and caused no damage, although it can very close to hitting a fleeing wheat combine. Two other weaker landspout tornadoes occurred simultaneously within a mile of the aforementioned landspout tornado.
Two to 5 inches of rain in only a few hours caused several inches of water to flow over roadways as well numerous road washouts...mainly 3 to 10 miles south and southwest of Holly.
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
3 within 8 miles
Other 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.
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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