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Huxtable Ranch Headquarters District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“The Huxtable Ranch Ranch Headquarters District, also known as White Creek Ranch, comprises a complex of ranch structures in Converse County, Wyoming. It was part of a dispersed community known as Boxelder, established by settlers in the 1880s.”

Wikipedia article Huxtable Ranch Headquarters District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Converse County · listed in 2011 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 8 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1351 Box Elder Rd, Glenrock, 82637
  • When was it listed? April 2011
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Ranches, Farms, and Homesteads in Wyoming, 1860-1960 MPS
  • Census division. Glenrock
  • National Register reference number. 10001172 - 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

7 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Huxtable Ranch Headquarters District between 1995 and 2020, burning about 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
12 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandBOXELDER CREEK FIRE
3 August 2020Naturalunder an acreConverse CountyBOXELDER CANYON
25 August 2014Natural1.5 acresMedicine Bow-Routt National Forests, Thunder Basin National GrasslandBOX ELDER CANYON
1 October 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
1 October 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
1 October 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named
1 October 1995Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWyoming State Forestrynot named

Every fire recorded in Converse County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Huxtable Ranch Headquarters District: 7 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Vermiculite, Iron, Fluorine-Fluorite, Asbestos. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Jasper MineCopperOccurrence
Olin Brothers PropertyIronOccurrenceHematite
Olin Brothers PropertyFluorine-FluoriteOccurrence
Stardust ClaimAsbestos, VermiculiteOccurrence
Badger ProspectVermiculiteOccurrence
Beach ProspectVermiculiteOccurrence
Smith DepositVermiculiteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Converse County

Storms near this property

24 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenrock, the town this property stands in, in 24 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 17 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 1997HailGlenrock$2,000A few golfball size hailstones accompanied a large amount of pea size stones.
August 1997HailGlenrock$2,000no account filed
April 2023Thunderstorm WindGlenrock-Multiple WYDOT observations near the Converse/Natrona County line recorded thunderstorm wind gusts 55-65 MPH.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindGlenrock-WYDOT mesonet station Deer Creek (KDRC) along Interstate 25 measured maximum wind gust.
July 2023HailGlenrock-From Glenrock Police Department. Hail ranged from quarters to half dollar size.
July 2023HailGlenrock-Twitter picture with a lot of hail stones. Largest were quarter size.
June 2020Thunderstorm WindGlenrock-WYDOT mesonet station KDRC - Deer Creek along I-25 reported wind gust.
June 2018HailGlenrock-Ping pong ball size hail was observed south of Glenrock.
July 2018HailGlenrock-Hail was reported along Interstate 25 at mile marker 169 near Glenrock.
June 2017HailGlenrock-Quarter size hail was observed a mile southwest of Glenrock.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGlenrock-Estimated wind gusts of 60 mph were reported at Glenrock.
June 2016Thunderstorm WindGlenrock-An estimated wind gust of 60 mph was reported at Glenrock.
July 2015HailGlenrock-Golf ball size hail was observed five miles west-southwest of Glenrock.
July 2015Thunderstorm WindGlenrock-Wind gusts of 60 mph were observed at Glenrock.
May 2008HailGlenrock-A severe thunderstorm produced hail from 3/4 to 1 inch in diameter in the vicinity of Glenrock, Wyoming.
September 1999Tornado (F0)Glenrock-2 Tornadoes reported by officer 5 miles northwest of Rolling Hills, WY
June 1999HailGlenrock-1 inch hail reported 20 miles northeast of Glenrock, WY
May 2007HailGlenrock-no account filed
July 2006HailGlenrock-no account filed
August 2005HailGlenrock-no account filed
May 2004HailGlenrock-no account filed
June 2001HailGlenrock-no account filed
July 2001HailGlenrock-no account filed
May 1999HailGlenrock-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Converse 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.

Listed places nearby

1 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Braehead Ranch7.7 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 10001172 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Converse CountyAll 19 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.
  • 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.