Raycraft Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Raycraft Ranch, located north of Carson City, Nevada on US 395 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It has significance for being the site of the first airplane flight in Nevada, on June 23, 1910.”
Wikipedia article Raycraft Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Carson City · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. N of Carson City, on U. S. 395, Carson City (Independent City), 89703
When was it listed? May 1976
Category. building
Census division. Carson City
National Register reference number. 76002243 - 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

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Raycraft Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,390 acres in total. 35 started naturally. 3 were 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	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Recreation and ceremony	17
Debris and open burning	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Fireworks	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	1
Firearms and explosives use	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
9 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Carson City District Office	BRUNSWICK
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carson City District Office	ARROWHEAD
8 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carson City District Office	AMBROSE
8 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Carson City District Office	KOONTZ
5 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District	POLECAT
3 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Carson City District Office	MOUNDHOUSE
29 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	35 acres	Carson City District Office	VOLTAIRE 2
27 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Carson City District Office	DEER RUN

Every fire recorded in Carson City

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Raycraft Ranch: 15 past producers, 9 occurrences, 7 prospects, 2 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Copper, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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	Recorded
Brunswick Canyon Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Carson Black Lead Mine	Graphite	Past Producer	1903
Carson City Monazite-Bearing Placer	REE, Chromium, Gold, Iron, Zirconium	Prospect
Carson Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Tungsten	Prospect
Cinderlite Aggregates	Pumice	Past Producer
Lucky Strike Group	Uranium, Silver, Gold	Prospect
North Carson	Copper, Silver, Lead	Past Producer
North Carson Mine	Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold	Past Producer
Premier Mine	Copper, Gold, Silver, Antimony, Bismuth, Lead, Cobalt	Past Producer
Premier Mines Corp.	Copper, Gold, Bismuth, Silver, Antimony	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Carson City

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

6 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
Foreman-Roberts, House	1.6 miles	1978
David Smaill House	1.7 miles	1985
Lakeview House	1.7 miles	1978
Adams House	1.7 miles	1999
Belknap House	1.8 miles	1997
Governor's Mansion	1.8 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76002243 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Carson City	All 43 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.