OW Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Big Horn County · listed in 1992 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly 15 mi. S of Birney on Hanging Woman Cr., Birney, 59025
When was it listed? December 1992
Category. district
Census division. Decker
National Register reference number. 92001321 - 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

16 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of OW Ranch between 1994 and 2019, burning about 1,913 acres in total. 16 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	16

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 1995	Natural	under an acre	Custer Gallatin National Forest	POKER JIM
3 September 2009	Natural	40 acres	Miles City Field Office	STROUD
19 September 1998	Natural	20 acres	Miles City Field Office	FEEDBACK
19 August 2019	Natural	1,439 acres	Miles City Field Office	VICTOR
15 August 2018	Natural	193 acres	Miles City Field Office	FIRST
11 August 1994	Natural	2.0 acres	Miles City Field Office	LAUNCH
21 July 2000	Natural	25 acres	Miles City Field Office	STROUD
16 July 2012	Natural	2.9 acres	Miles City Field Office	THIRD

Every fire recorded in Big Horn 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001321 in Record Group 79.
Big Horn County	All 38 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.