Ranch A

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“Ranch A, near Beulah, Wyoming, was built as a vacation retreat for newspaper publisher Moses Annenberg. The original log ranch structures in Sand Creek Canyon were designed in the rustic style by architect Ray Ewing.”
Wikipedia article Ranch A, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Crook County · listed in 1997 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Off Riflepit Rd., approximately 3 mi. E of US 14--I-90, Ranch A National Fish Genetics Laboratory, Beulah, 82712
When was it listed? March 1997
Category. district
Census division. Sundance
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 97000227 - 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Ranch A between 1992 and 2020, burning about 123 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 1 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	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2
Fireworks	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	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
25 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	2.1 acres	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	AIRPLANE
2 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	SAND CREEK
19 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	PICKUP
8 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	DUGOUT
8 August 2016	Natural	under an acre	Black Hills National Forest	SAND
8 August 2015	Natural	under an acre	South Dakota Wildland Fire Suppression	BEAR RIDGE
8 August 2011	Natural	6.0 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	ROCKS
7 August 2019	Natural	1.0 acres	Crook County	I90 MM 201 GRASS FIRE

Every fire recorded in Crook County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ranch A: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Apex	Uranium	Occurrence	Vein

Every working recorded in Crook County

Storms near this property

43 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Beulah, the town this property stands in, in 43 storm reports between 1999 and 2025: 22 hail, 20 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	$15,000	no account filed
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	-	Mesonet recorded wind gust.
July 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	-	Photos show multiple large trees uprooted, estimated wind gust.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	-	WY mesonet recorded wind gust.
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	-	Wind gusts were estimated near 70 mph.
June 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2019	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2018	Heavy Rain	Beulah	-	Rainfall of 2.25 inches occurred in 45 minutes.
June 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	-	The spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	-	Wind gusts were estimated at 60 mph.
July 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	-	A large highway sign was blown over.
August 2008	Hail	Beulah	-	Windows were broken and vehicles and motorcycles damaged by large hail and strong winds.
July 2024	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
July 2024	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
May 2023	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
August 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	-	no account filed
June 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	-	no account filed
July 2020	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
July 2020	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
July 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	-	no account filed
July 2020	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
July 2019	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
July 2018	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	-	no account filed
July 2018	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	-	no account filed
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	-	no account filed
June 2011	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
July 2007	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
July 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	-	no account filed
July 2005	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
July 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	-	no account filed
June 2003	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed
July 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Beulah	-	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Beulah	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crook 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 97000227 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crook County	All 10 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.