Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
From the record
“Walking Box Ranch, 7 mi (11 km) west of Searchlight, Nevada in the Mojave Desert, was founded in 1931 by the actors Rex Bell and Clara Bow as a working 400,000 acres (160,000 ha) ranch. The ranch covered 160 acres (65 ha) at the time it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 30, 2009.”
Wikipedia article Walking Box Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 48 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 2009 · category: District.
National Register reference number.08001392- 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 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Walking Box Ranch
between 1993 and 2014, burning about 349 acres in total. 7 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
7
Smoking
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
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
9 workings within 5 miles of Walking Box Ranch: 5 past producers, 3 prospects, 1 plant.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver, Manganese. 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
Searchlight, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1993 and 2024: 14 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 lightning.
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.
A large area of Highway 164 was flooded west of Searchlight. Road crews reported several miles of debris and shoulder erosion. It was estimated that road repairs would take a couple of weeks.
A large amount of graupel fell on Highway 95 north of Searchlight, contributing to multiple crashes. The highway was closed between mile markers 24 and 29 from 1408 to 1638 PST.
Early in the evening, thunderstorms began to produce rainfall amounts in the vicinity of Searchlight of over one inch per hour. A weather spotter observed two feet of water across a nearby surface road around 6:30 p.m. PDT. By 7:30 p.m. PDT, 2.20 inches of rain had been recorded in Searchlight. After a short break, thunderstorms redeveloped and dumped an additional eight-tenths (0.80) of an inch during the late evening.
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.
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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