Hunter Hereford Ranch Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Hunter Hereford Ranch was first homesteaded in 1909 by James Williams in the eastern portion of Jackson Hole, in what would become Grand Teton National Park. By the 1940s it was developed as a hobby ranch by William and Eileen Hunter and their foreman John Anderson.”
Wikipedia article Hunter Hereford Ranch Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 65 National Register listings published here for Teton County · listed in 1998 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. SE corner of park, S of Shadow Mt. along Aspen Ridge, Moose, 83011
When was it listed? August 1998
Category. district
Also known as. Grand Teton National Park MPS
Census division. Jackson Hole
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 98001031 - 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Hunter Hereford Ranch Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,498 acres in total. 30 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	30
Recreation and ceremony	24
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Other causes	1
Equipment and vehicle 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
8 September 1998	Arson/incendiarism	340 acres	Grand Teton National Park	HAYFIELDS
7 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Bridger-Teton National Forest	CARPENTER
6 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	PRONGHORN
5 September 2016	Natural	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	RIVERBANK
3 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	National Elk Refuge	HIGHLANDS
24 September 1992	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	QUAKING
12 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Bridger-Teton National Forest	TORCH BASE
9 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Grand Teton National Park	SCIENCE SC

Every fire recorded in Teton 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 Hunter Hereford Ranch Historic District: 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Phosphorus-Phosphates. 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
Gros Ventre Slide Occurrence	Phosphorus-Phosphates	Occurrence
Gros Ventre Slide Prospect	Phosphorus-Phosphates, Uranium	Occurrence
Kelly Slide Area	Uranium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Teton County

Storms near this property

6 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moose, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
July 2007	Lightning	Moose	1 hurt	no account filed
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Moose	$10,000	Several trees were downed in a swath from the Death Canyon Trailhead east across the Moose-Wilson Road. Motorists were trapped on the road by fallen trees which were blocking passage. One vehicle was damaged near Death Canyon due to a fallen tree.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Moose	-	A 60 mph wind gust was reported at the weather station at the Teton Saddle.
July 2013	Hail	Moose	-	Nickel sized hail was seen at Moose by a trained spotter.
August 2003	Wildfire	Moose	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Moose	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Teton 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

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
Ramshorn Dude Ranch Lodge	0.6 miles	1998
Mormon Row Historic District	1.3 miles	1997
Andy Chambers Ranch Historic District	2.8 miles	1990
Bar B C Dude Ranch	4.6 miles	1990
4 Lazy F Dude Ranch	5.0 miles	1990
Menor's Ferry	5.1 miles	1969

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001031 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Teton County	All 65 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.