John Ross House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“John Ross House, also known as Old Matt's Cabin, is a historic home located at the Shepherd of the Hills farm near Branson, Taney County, Missouri. The original section was built in the mid-1880s or mid-1890s, as a single cell log structure.”
Wikipedia article John Ross House (Branson, Missouri), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Taney County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Ross, John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. MO 76, Branson, 65616
When was it listed? July 1983
Category. building
Township. Branson township
National Register reference number. 83001054 - 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

32 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of John Ross House between 1994 and 2019, burning about 30 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	19
Debris and open burning	7
Smoking	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	1
Fireworks	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
16 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
17 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
23 July 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	not named
19 July 2018	Natural	6.9 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	177405-10601-07192018-1905
30 June 2018	Fireworks	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	177232-10601-06302018-2210
25 June 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	137851-10601-06252016-1730
18 June 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Missouri Department of Conservation	138031-10601-06182016-1559
4 April 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Missouri Department of Conservation	136431-10601-04042016-1641

Every fire recorded in Taney County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of John Ross House: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Lead, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Unknown - Lead - Zinc	Lead, Zinc	Past Producer
Unknown - S+G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unknown - S+G	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Baird Mountain Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Ozark Concrete Quarry & Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Table Rock Quarry # 1	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Table Rock Quarry # 2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Unknown - Ls	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Taney County

Storms near this property

60 of 123 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Branson, the town this property stands in, in 123 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 55 thunderstorm wind, 33 hail, 22 flash flood, 6 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	1 hurt, $100,000	no account filed
July 2015	Flash Flood	Branson	$1,000,000	The low water crossings along Fall Creek Road and Roark Valley Road was flooded and closed. Bee Creek Road near Cozy Cove had major flooding. This storm report will contain the overall flood damage estimates across Taney County for this storm event. There were several episodes and heavy rainfall events which led to a compound affect to the flooding damage. Numerous roads, bridges, and low water crossings were heavily damaged.
March 2006	Hail	Branson	$500,000	Baseball size hail caused damage to roofs and vehicles within a section of Branson.
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$125,000	Sporadic but widespread wind damage was reported throughout the city of Branson. Multiple trees were reported down, including some on vehicles. Several power lines and poles were also downed.
July 2015	Flood	Branson	$50,000	A large concrete retaining wall collapsed and fell onto a parking lot due to very saturated ground. About 8 cars in the parking lot had damage due to the wall falling on them. Picture of the damage was from social media and time estimated.
May 1998	Hail	Branson	$50,000	Golf ball size hail fell from Table Rock State Park northeast to the Highway 76 strip in Branson. Dents were reported in many cars.
April 1994	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$50,000	Large trees were blown down damaging a roof and landing on several parked cars. Reported by county officials and a local newspaper.
September 1993	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$50,000	A roof was blown off of part of a fishing dock and house near Lake Taneycomo.
April 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$30,000	no account filed
June 2014	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$25,000	A hotel in Branson had a partial roof collapse.
July 2001	Lightning	Branson	$25,000	no account filed
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$10,000	A large tree was blown down on a car near 3rd Street and Pacific Street.
April 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$10,000	Several power lines were blown down at 6th Street and College Street in downtown Branson.
May 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$10,000	High winds damaged siding and shingles to a couple of hotels on the west side of Branson near the White Water, Water Park.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$10,000	Utility poles and football stadium lights were blown down on top of a house.
December 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$5,000	A McDonalds sign on Branson Hills Parkway was blown down by high winds. Report relayed by Media.
April 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$5,000	There were multiple power lines and trees blown down in the Branson area. Some trees blocked roadways.
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$5,000	Several power lines were blown down in downtown Branson.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$5,000	Several large trees and power lines were blown down in the Branson area.
September 2005	Flash Flood	Branson	$5,000	Flash flooding inundated a house north of Branson.
November 2005	Lightning	Branson	$5,000	Lightning struck a four story condominium and set fire to the cupola. The fire did not spread and there were no injuries.
July 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$5,000	no account filed
March 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$4,000	no account filed
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$3,000	Thunderstorm winds downed trees and tore a deck off of a home.
August 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$2,000	There was damage to utility poles near the city hall in Branson.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$2,000	A power line and large tree banches were blown down near downtown Branson.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$2,000	Several trees and power lines were blown down near Highway 65 and Highway 248.
June 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	$2,000	Severe thunderstorm wind gusts downed trees into a house. The roof was partially damaged from the falling trees.
July 2024	Heavy Rain	Branson	-	Emergency management reported 4.80 inches of storm total rainfall.
July 2024	Heavy Rain	Branson	-	The Mesonet station FW2149 in Branson measured a 12-hour rainfall total of 4.86 inches.
July 2024	Heavy Rain	Branson	-	The Mesonet station FW6784 in Branson measured a 12-hour rainfall total of 8.59 inches.
July 2024	Heavy Rain	Branson	-	The Mesonet station FW6785 in Branson measured a 12-hour rainfall total of 8.61 inches.
July 2024	Flash Flood	Branson	-	Dispatch reported road closured due to flooding and heavy rainfall. A Mesonet station measured 4.90 inches of 1-hour rainfall.
July 2024	Flash Flood	Branson	-	Report of 3 foot deep water flowing over Briar Cliff Drive.
November 2024	Heavy Rain	Branson	-	The Mesonet station FW6784 in Branson measured a 24-hour rainfall total of 6.12 inches.
July 2023	Hail	Branson	-	Hail up to quarters in size was reported.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	-	Numerous large trees were reported down in town.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	-	The Branson Fire Department measured a wind gust of 64 mph.
July 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	-	Several trees were reported down blocking county and local roads.
May 2022	Hail	Branson	-	Quarter sized hail was reported via MPing.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	-	Several large limbs were reported down across town.
August 2022	Hail	Branson	-	Hail dollar sized hail was reported at Branson Landing.
April 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	-	Several large trees were down on Highway 76 near the Highroad and Shepherd of the Hills outdoor theater.
April 2021	Flash Flood	Branson	-	Numerous reports of flooding were received along Roark Creek including at Roark Valley and Veterans Boulevard. A report of nearly 2.50 inches of rain was received near Table Rock Dam in in the vicinity of Branson Landing.
December 2021	Flash Flood	Branson	-	A water rescue was performed successfully on Roark Creek.
May 2020	Flood	Branson	-	The low water crossings were closed on Fall Creek Road. Several other city streets were also closed to to flooding rains.
May 2020	Flash Flood	Branson	-	Roark Creek at Stockstill Park in Branson was out of its banks. The park was evacuated without incident and closed.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	-	A large tree was uprooted.
May 2019	Flash Flood	Branson	-	Minor flash flooding was reported along Roark Valley Road and Fall Creek.
May 2019	Hail	Branson	-	Half-dollar sized hail was reported.
July 2019	Flood	Branson	-	The Branson police reported urban flooding of several roadways in the downtown area.
October 2019	Heavy Rain	Branson	-	The Mesonet station FW2149 in Branson reported 4.24 inches of rainfall.
October 2019	Flash Flood	Branson	-	State Highway 76 was closed between Commercial Street and Lake Shore Drive due to flooding.
October 2019	Flash Flood	Branson	-	Stockstill Park along Roark Creek was reported as completely underwater and flooded.
October 2019	Flash Flood	Branson	-	Flooding was reported on Jasmine Drive east of the Landing closing the road for several hours.
May 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	-	Reports were received of trees down across the City of Branson from Pointe Royale to Branson Hills Parkway to City Hall. At least one tree estimated at 36 inches in diameter fell on a home in Pointe Royale.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	-	A weather instrument at the Branson RecPlex measured a 60 mph wind gust.
June 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	-	Numerous large tree limbs were reported down.
May 2018	Hail	Branson	-	Tennis ball size hail fell for about 5 minutes.
December 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Branson	-	A 73 mph wind gust was measured on a Davis Weather Station in Branson Hills, 1.5 miles west of Highway 76.

Every storm recorded in Taney 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.

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Branson City Park Historic District	5.2 miles	1993
Downing Street Historic District	5.5 miles	1978
Samuel T. and Mary B. Parnell House	5.5 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001054 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Taney County	All 6 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.