This is a list of notable corrals used to enclose horses and other livestock. In the American west, a number of historic corrals are listed on the U.S.

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

(NRHP). Among these are corrals used to trap or hold wild horses, corrals used to support cavalry, and corrals which otherwise supported usage of horses in ranching or other activities. The

Union Stock Yards The Union Stock Yard & Transit Co., or The Yards, was the meatpacking district in Chicago for more than a century, starting in 1865. The district was operated by a group of railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a central ...

in Chicago had 2,300 separate livestock pens, but probably no ones that were individually notable. In 2019, a pen in

Revelstoke, British Columbia Revelstoke () is a city in southeastern British Columbia, Canada, with a census population of 8,275 in 2021. Revelstoke is located east of Vancouver, and west of Calgary, Alberta. The city is situated on the banks of the Columbia River just sout ...

, Canada, took in the last individual

caribou Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 subspe ...

which had migrated in and out of the contiguous United States. Notable corrals in the United States, past and present, include: *

O.K. Corral The gunfight at the O.K. Corral was a thirty-second shootout between law enforcement officer, lawmen led by Virgil Earp and members of a loosely organized group of outlaws called the Cochise County Cowboys, Cowboys that occurred at about 3: ...

, Tombstone, Arizona, existing from 1879 to about 1888 * Cavalry Corrals, Tucson, Arizona, NRHP-listed * Quartermaster's Corrals, Tucson, Arizona, NRHP-listed * Corral de Piedra, San Luis Obispo, California, NRHP-listed * Indian Stone Corral, Orangevale, California, NRHP-listed * corral of Salida Livestock Commission Company, Salida, Colorado, NRHP-listed * Texas Trail Stone Corral, Imperial, Nebraska, NRHP-listed *

James Wild Horse Trap The James Wild Horse Trap in Nye County, Nevada, near Fish Springs, is a historic site that is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It was the location of a corral and fences used to capture wild horses, built out of dead Juni ...

, Fish Springs, Nevada, NRHP-listed * Jose Olguin Barn-Corral Complex, Mora, New Mexico, NRHP-listed *

Rock Corral on the Barlow Road The Rock Corral on the Barlow Road is a glacial erratic, on Oregon's Barlow Road, itself a new route on the Oregon Trail. Its location It is on the way to Marmot, where the Barlow Road then goes southwest cross the Devil's Backbone and back ac ...

, Brightwood, Oregon, NRHP-listed * Stone Corrals No. 1-6 (41OL250), Amarillo, Texas, NRHP-listed *In the Texas Panhandle there are 11 isolated animal pens and numerous more pens at temporary or permanent habitation sites of ''pastores'' (New Mexican hispanic shepherds), which were listed on the National Register based on a "New Mexican Pastor Sites in Texas Panhandle Thematic Resources" study. (redacted as to most locations) The pastores flourished especially during 1875 to 1880. Numerous sites were founded as result of 1876 immigration of a group led by Casimero Romero, which brought a dozen or more oxen-pulled freight wagons, about 4,500 head of sheep, and some horses and cattle. Of the 11 isolated ones, seven are U-shaped or semicircular and built against a steep slope that serves as a back wall, with or without additional smaller pen units attached. Free-standing ones are rectangular or ovoid. These are located on private ranchlands in, at least, Oldham County, Floyd County, and Armstrong County, and their exact locations/addresses are restricted. **

Floyd County Stone Corral Floyd may refer to: As a name * Floyd (given name), a list of people and fictional characters * Floyd (surname), a list of people and fictional characters Places in the United States * Floyd, Arkansas, an unincorporated community * Floyd, I ...

, Floydada, Floyd County, Texas, NRHP-listed under New Mexican Pastor Sites in Texas Panhandle Thematic Resources **

Palo Duro Pen (41AM5) Palo may refer to: Places * Palo, Argentina, a village in Argentina * Palo, Estonia, village in Meremäe Parish, Võru County, Estonia * Palo, Huesca, municipality in the province of Huesca, Spain * Palo, Iowa, United States, a town located with ...

(1880), Armstrong County, Texas, NRHP-listed under New Mexican Pastor Sites in Texas Panhandle Thematic Resources *

Swett Ranch Swett Ranch, in Daggett County, Utah southwest of Dutch John, has buildings dating from 1909. A section of the ranch was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It included nine contributing buildings and three contributing ...

corral (1905), Daggett County, Utah, NRHP-listed *

Cathedral Valley Corral The Cathedral Valley Corral was constructed around 1900 by local cattlemen in the northern portion of what is now Capitol Reef National Park in Utah. It is one of the oldest examples of ranching use in the park. It coincided with a change in the u ...

, Torrey, Utah, NRHP-listed *

Lesley Morrell Line Cabin and Corral The Leslie Morrell Line Cabin and Corral are located in the Cathedral Valley section of northern Capitol Reef National Park in Utah. The cabin was built in the 1920s on Lake Creek by Paul Christensen at his sawmill as a summer residence for Christ ...

, Torrey, Utah, NRHP-listed *

Strap Iron Corral The Strap Iron Corral, located about north of Hooper, Washington, is a historic corral built in the 1870s by "Uncle Jim" Kennedy. and It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. See also * National Register of Historic ...

, Hooper, Washington, NRHP-listed *

Natural Corrals Archeological Site (48SW336) The Natural Corrals is an Area of Critical Environmental Concern and an archeological site in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. The Natural Corrals Archeological Site has Smithsonian trinomial designation of 48SW336. The Natural Corrals Area of Criti ...

, South Superior, Wyoming, NRHP-listed

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Historic photo of goat corral, Oja del Agua, Province Tucuman, Argentina, 1926
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