Big Red Ranch Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Big Red Ranch Complex is an historic ranch located off U.S. The ranch was built circa 1882 by the Pratt & Ferris Cattle Company and was one of three large ranches operated by the company in the region.”
Wikipedia article Big Red Ranch Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Sheridan County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. Off U.S. 14/16, Ucross, 82835
When was it listed? October 1984
Category. building
Census division. Sheridan
National Register reference number. 84000437 - 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

8 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Big Red Ranch Complex between 1992 and 2017, burning about 170 acres in total. None 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/undetermined	7
Debris and open burning	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
8 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Buffalo Field Office	FOWLER
24 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
21 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	120 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
13 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
13 August 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
25 July 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
16 April 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named
22 March 2012	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	VIGNIROLLI

Every fire recorded in Sheridan County

Storms near this property

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ucross, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 6 hail. 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
September 2024	Hail	Ucross	-	no account filed
June 2022	Hail	Ucross	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Ucross	-	no account filed
August 2018	Hail	Ucross	-	no account filed
May 2014	Hail	Ucross	-	no account filed
June 2002	Hail	Ucross	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sheridan 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 84000437 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sheridan County	All 29 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.