Lehman Orchard and Aqueduct

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Lehman Orchard and Aqueduct were established by Absalom Lehman, the discoverer of Lehman Caves in what would become Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada. Lehman's orchard covered more than 7 acres (2.8 ha), with about 40 apricot, pear, peach, crabapple, plum and apple trees in the 1930s, of more than 100 trees at its peak.”
Wikipedia article Lehman Orchard and Aqueduct, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for White Pine County · listed in 1975 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Lehman Caves National Monument, Baker, 89311
When was it listed? February 1975
Category. district
Census division. Baker
National Register reference number. 75000181 - 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

67 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 67 fires within 5 miles of Lehman Orchard and Aqueduct between 1992 and 2020, burning about 88 acres in total. 57 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	57
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
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 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Ely District Office	LEHMAN
2 September 2001	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Great Basin National Park	WHEELER RD
16 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Great Basin National Park	UPPER LEHM
11 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Great Basin National Park	POLE
1 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	YOUNG
9 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Great Basin National Park	CIRCLE M
5 August 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ely District Office	UPPER SIXTEEN
4 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Ely District Office	SHERMAN

Every fire recorded in White Pine County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lehman Orchard and Aqueduct: 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper, Tungsten. 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
	Poljack Claim	Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold	Past Producer
	Poljack Prospect	Gold, Tungsten	Prospect	1939, 1942

Every working recorded in White Pine County

Storms near this property

13 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Baker, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 7 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 heavy rain, 1 debris flow. 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
August 2014	Debris Flow	Baker	$2,000	A large debris flow occurred on the Hampton fire burn scar with debris flowing 4 miles into the valley below the fire burn area. A mesonet site about 5 miles away reported 0.90 inches of rain in 80 minutes. A private residence was impacted by the debris flow. Damages are estimated.
August 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Baker	-	Station (MTHN2) Mather, Elevation 9268 ft.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Baker	-	Station (MTHN2) Mather Raws, Elevation 9268 feet.
June 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Baker	-	Station (MTHN2) Mather Raws, Elevation 9268 feet.
September 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Baker	-	Station (MTHN2) Mather Raws, Elevation 9268 feet.
August 2021	Heavy Rain	Baker	-	One and fifty-one hundreth inches of rain fell at DRI site (DNEP7), 2 miles west of Baker. Water was reported to be running onto an adjacent road in NV-488. Elevation 6035 feet.
August 2021	Flash Flood	Baker	-	Heavy rain was reported in the are with some estimates of 1-2 inches of rainfall. Law Enforcement reported several inches of water over US Highway 50 at mile marker 9. They also reported several inches of water across SR-488, 487, and US-6.
October 2018	Heavy Rain	Baker	-	Mesonet Station BKRN2, Great Basin National Park CRN rainfall of 0.75 inches measured in 15 minutes.
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Baker	-	Thunderstorm winds knocked down power lines in Baker. Power was out through the night.
August 2003	Flash Flood	Baker	-	Flash floods closed highway 50 for over two hours five miles northeast of Baker. Mudslides caused closure of highway 50 near Sacramento Summit 18 miles northwest of Baker. Flash flooding on highway 93 twenty miles south of Majors Place caused a vehicle accident.
July 2003	Flash Flood	Baker	-	Heavy rains washed mud across road going into the Great Basin National Park.
July 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Baker	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Baker	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in White Pine 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

4 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
Rhodes Cabin	under 500 feet	1975
Osceola (East) Ditch	4.0 miles	1996
Baker Ranger Station	5.1 miles	1995
Johnson Lake Mine Historic District	6.0 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75000181 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
White Pine County	All 21 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.