White Horse Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The White Horse Ranch, in Boyd County, Nebraska near Naper, Nebraska was founded in 1936. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.”
Wikipedia article White Horse Ranch (Naper, Nebraska), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Boyd County · listed in 1990 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. SE of Naper between the Keya Paha and Niobrara Rivers, Naper, 68755
When was it listed? July 1990
Category. district
Township. Basin township
National Register reference number. 90000984 - 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

4 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of White Horse Ranch between 2007 and 2020, burning about 202 acres in total. 2 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	2
Debris and open burning	2

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
30 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
9 June 2020	Natural	under an acre	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
15 April 2010	Debris and open burning	200 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named
11 April 2010	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Nebraska Forest Service	not named

Every fire recorded in Boyd County

Storms near this property

46 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Naper, the town this property stands in, in 46 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 37 hail, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
March 2019	Flood	Naper	$1,000,000	County road bridge 8 miles south of Naper along the Niobrara River reported destroyed by heavy rain and snow melt that led to ice jams that broke up and moved downstream.
July 2010	Flash Flood	Naper	$100,000	Thunderstorms training over the same areas produced six to nine inches of rainfall in northern Holt and central Boyd counties. Several roads were closed due to water flowing across the roads to include Highway 12 between Bristow and Lynch, while numerous roads were washed out 9 to 12 miles north of Stuart. Spencer Dam authorities announced that the dam had reached capacity resulting in high releases of water downstream of the dam.
June 2009	Hail	Naper	$15,000	The hail broke windows and damaged the siding on a home.
June 2009	Hail	Naper	$15,000	Hail broke windows and piled up to 3 inches deep.
August 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Naper	$15,000	Two foot diameter trees were uprooted.
June 2009	Hail	Naper	$10,000	Hail covered the ground.
June 2009	Hail	Naper	$5,000	no account filed
June 2009	Hail	Naper	$3,000	no account filed
May 2007	Hail	Naper	$1,200	A vehicle sustained hail damage.
May 2007	Hail	Naper	$1,200	no account filed
August 2024	Hail	Naper	-	Time was estimated from radar.
May 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Naper	-	Thunderstorm wind gusts were estimated at 60 MPH at this location along with half inch diameter hail.
July 2018	Flash Flood	Naper	-	Water over roads but no road closures.
August 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Naper	-	Wind gusts were estimated to have blown at 60 m.p.h.
August 2010	Heavy Rain	Naper	-	Law enforcement reported 2 inches of rain fell in less than 20 minutes.
August 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Naper	-	Five inch tree branches were broken by thunderstorm wind gusts.
August 2009	Hail	Naper	-	Golf ball size hail caused extensive crop damage. The hail was accompanied by up to 2.5 inches of rainfall.
August 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Naper	-	Numerous 8 inch diameter tree limbs were broken by strong thunderstorm outflow winds.
September 1998	Hail	Naper	-	Hail damage to grassland.
July 2025	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
July 2025	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
May 2016	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
June 2014	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
May 2011	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
August 2010	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
September 2010	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
May 2002	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
June 2001	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
July 2001	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
September 2001	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
May 1999	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed
September 1997	Hail	Naper	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boyd 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 90000984 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boyd County	All 3 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.
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.