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One of 7 National Register listings published here for Elko County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
El Rancho Hotel and Casino
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- Address. 1629 Lake Avenue, Wells, 89835
- When was it listed? February 2024
- Category. building
- Census division. Wells
- National Register reference number. 100009943 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
42 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of El Rancho Hotel and Casino between 1993 and 2019, burning about 73,953 acres in total. 16 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 | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 1999 | Railroad operations and maintenance | 2.0 acres | Elko District Office | RAILROAD 2 |
| 5 September 2015 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Elko District Office | ROADWAY |
| 30 September 2011 | Natural | 1.5 acres | Elko District Office | WELLS GRAVEL PIT |
| 27 September 1993 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Elko District Office | SOUTHERN |
| 16 September 1995 | Natural | 120 acres | Elko District Office | WOOD HILLS |
| 6 August 1993 | Natural | under an acre | Elko District Office | WOOD HILL1 |
| 4 August 2012 | Firearms and explosives use | under an acre | Elko District Office | WEST HIGHWAY 93 |
| 23 August 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Elko District Office | GUN RANGE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of El Rancho Hotel and Casino: 8 unknowns, 4 occurrences, 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Marble, Dimension, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reberta | Lead | Unknown | ||
| Wells City Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| West Pequip | Gold, Silver | Unknown | ||
| Hot Springs Near Wells | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Hot Sulphur Springs | Geothermal | Unknown | ||
| Marble Occurrence | Limestone, General | Unknown | ||
| Marble Occurrence | Marble, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Nevada Picture Rock | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | 1947 | |
| Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Unknown | ||
| Sandstone Mine | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown |
Storms near this property
4 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wells, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2006: 1 flash flood, 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2006 | Flood | Wells | $5,000 | Portions of the road to the Tabor Creek Campground were washed out by floodwaters. |
| June 1998 | Tornado (F0) | Wells | - | A brief weak tornado touched down southeast of Wells. No damage was reported. |
| April 1999 | Hail | Wells | - | no account filed |
| July 1996 | Flash Flood | Wells | - | no account filed |
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 100009943 in Record Group 79. |
| Elko County | All 7 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.