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One of 52 National Register listings published here for Humboldt County · listed in 2018 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Lyons Ranches Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1925.
The listing
- Address. Bald Hills Road, Redwood National Park., Orick, 95555
- When was it listed? March 2018
- Category. district
- Census division. Willow Creek-Hoopa Valley
- National Register reference number. 100002212 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1925 to 1983The ground this property stands on, surveyed 58 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
35 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Lyons Ranches Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 523 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 5 were 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 | 9 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 5 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2007 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 acres | Redwood National and State Parks | WILLIAMS |
| 4 September 2003 | Natural | under an acre | Redwood National and State Parks | ELK |
| 3 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Humboldt-Del Norte Unit | BALD |
| 3 September 2003 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Redwood National and State Parks | LYONS |
| 3 September 2003 | Natural | 50 acres | Redwood National and State Parks | BRIDGE |
| 23 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Redwood National and State Parks | LYONSRANCH |
| 16 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Redwood National and State Parks | SPOT |
| 10 September 2007 | Arson/incendiarism | 1.0 acres | Redwood National and State Parks | SCHOOL |
Mines and quarries near this property
1 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Lyons Ranches Historic District: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Chromium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| French Camp Prospect | Chromium | Occurrence | Chromite |
Storms near this property
7 since 2003Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Orick, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2025: 2 hail, 2 flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2021 | Hail | Orick | $4,000 | Law enforcement report of small hail covering Highway 101 in northern Humboldt County around 3:41 a.m. Law enforcement report stated a car accident occurred on the hail covered road. Duration of small hail and exact size unknown, though likely smaller than pea size. |
| March 2024 | Heavy Rain | Orick | $3,500 | Debris flow blocking both norht and south lanes of traffic about 3 miles south southwest of Orick, CA. LAT. 41.23N, LONG. -124.08W. |
| February 2019 | Hail | Orick | $1,500 | Report of an accident due to a hail covered roadway. Troopers requested a plow to clear the roadway. |
| December 2025 | Flood | Orick | - | Flooding reported on Highway 101 between Davidson Road and Lost Man Creek. Davidson Road also flooded. |
| December 2022 | Flood | Orick | - | Flooding of Prairie Creek led to the shutdown of Davidson Road in Redwood National Park. |
| February 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Orick | - | Patrick's Point State Park |
| December 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Orick | - | no account filed |
Maps showing this location
9 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1925 USGS Hoopa quadrangle1:125000
- 1945 USGS Coyote Peak quadrangle1:62500
- 1948 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
- 1952 USGS Coyote Peak quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
- 1958 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
- 1963 USGS Weed quadrangle1:250000
- 1982 USGS Bald Hills quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
- 1983 USGS Hoopa quadrangle1:100000
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002212 in Record Group 79. |
| Humboldt County | All 52 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.