Cabin Creek Ranch

Built in 1894. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Cabin Creek Ranch, on Cabin Creek at its confluence with Big Creek in the Payette National Forest, near Black Butte, Idaho, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The listing included two contributing buildings, two contributing structures, and 16 contributing sites on 620 acres (250 ha).Year of construction: 1894 Historic function: Domestic; Agriculture/subsistence Historic subfunction: Single Dwelling; Agricultural Outbuildings; Agricultural Fields; Animal Facility; Secondary Structure Criteria: event, information potential”
Wikipedia article Cabin Creek Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 25 National Register listings published here for Valley County · listed in 1990 · category: District · built in 1894.

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

The listing

Address. Cabin Cr. at jct. with Big Cr., Payette NF, Black Butte, 83611
When was it listed? June 1990
Category. district
Census division. Stibnite
When was it built? 1894
National Register reference number. 90000890 - 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

17 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Cabin Creek Ranch between 1992 and 2015, burning about 5,637 acres in total. 13 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
Natural	13
Recreation and ceremony	3
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
20 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Payette National Forest	BLACK BUTTE
4 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	RUSH FIRE
25 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	RUSH
24 August 1997	Natural	1.0 acres	Payette National Forest	CABIN PNF
23 August 1998	Natural	12 acres	Payette National Forest	HORSE
2 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	HORSE MOUNTAIN
2 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	TWENTY MILE
17 August 1992	Natural	under an acre	Payette National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Valley County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Cabin Creek Ranch: 10 occurrences, 6 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Iron, Titanium, Gold, Silver, Lead, Silver, Gold, Zinc. 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	Recorded
Gold Lodge Claim	Lead, Silver, Gold, Zinc	Occurrence	1902
Gold Lodge Claim	Silver, Lead, Gold, Zinc	Occurrence
Valentine Claim	Gold, Silver	Occurrence	1910
Valentine Claim	Silver, Gold	Occurrence
Cabin Creek Bar Placer	Iron, Titanium, Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Cave Creek Placer	Iron, Titanium, Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Coxey Creek Bar Placer	Iron, Titanium, Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Coxey Creek Placer	Iron, Titanium, Gold	Occurrence	Placer
John Vine Bar Placer	Iron, Titanium, Gold	Occurrence	Placer
No Name Placer	Iron, Titanium, Gold	Occurrence	Placer

Every working recorded in Valley 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 90000890 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Valley County	All 25 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.