James Wild Horse Trap

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The James Wild Horse Trap in Nye County, Nevada, near Fish Springs, is a historic site that is listed on the U.S. It was the location of a corral and fences used to capture wild horses, built out of dead Juniper trees.”
Wikipedia article James Wild Horse Trap, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 53 National Register listings published here for Nye County · listed in 1974 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

Address. About 5 mi. E of Fish Springs, Fish Springs, 89049
When was it listed? November 1974
Category. structure
Census division. Round Mountain
National Register reference number. 74001148 - 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

3 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of James Wild Horse Trap between 2001 and 2019, burning about 13 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	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
20 June 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	8.0 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	BIG COW CANYON
20 June 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	5.0 acres	Battle Mountain District Office	COW CANYON
18 June 2019	Natural	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	BIG COW

Every fire recorded in Nye County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of James Wild Horse Trap: 3 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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
Big Cow Canyon	Gold	Prospect
Limestone Spring	Gold	Prospect
Red Springs	Gold	Prospect

Every working recorded in Nye 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 74001148 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Nye County	All 53 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.