Alamo Ranchhouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Alamo Ranchhouse, near Steamboat, Nevada, is a historic "plantation style mansion" that was built in 1887. Also known as the Moffat Ranchhouse, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”
Wikipedia article Alamo Ranchhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 83 National Register listings published here for Washoe County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. SW of Steamboat at 20205 S. Virginia St., Steamboat, 89521
When was it listed? November 1979
Category. building
Census division. Washoe Valley
National Register reference number. 79001466 - 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Alamo Ranchhouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12,966 acres in total. 19 started naturally. 3 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	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Firearms and explosives use	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Smoking	1
Fireworks	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
3 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nevada Division of Forestry - Western Region	RON
29 September 2008	Natural	2.0 acres	Carson City District Office	COTTONTAIL
27 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Nevada Division of Forestry - Western Region	EATON & PLEASANT VALLEY ASSIST
2 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Carson City District Office	TOLL ROAD
13 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	POWER PLANT 2
10 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	POWER PLANT
9 August 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	11 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	GALENA
8 August 2001	Natural	10 acres	Carson City District Office	TOLL

Every fire recorded in Washoe County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Alamo Ranchhouse: 18 past producers, 8 occurrences, 4 producers, 2 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Mercury, Tungsten. 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
Commonwealth	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Gold	Past Producer	Calamine, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Malachite, Smithsonite, Sphalerite
Denver Mine	Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Vein
Ellen B. Property	Gold, Tungsten, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Faith Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Freiberg Mine	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer
Galena Hill Mine	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold	Past Producer	Cerussite, Hemimorphite
Galena Hill Mine	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
Geiger Clay Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
NBMG Sample Site 4321	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Occurrence	Galena
Rocky Hill Mine	Gold, Arsenic	Past Producer	Vein

Every working recorded in Washoe County

Storms near this property

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Steamboat, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 2 heavy rain, 2 debris flow, 2 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
March 2023	Flood	Steamboat	-	The public reported 7.0 mi NE of Washoe City, NV, that Toll Road is flooded at Geiger Grade road.
March 2023	Flood	Steamboat	-	The broadcast media reported that 3.0 mi NE of Washoe City, NV, of flooding in Pleasant Valley, NV.
May 2023	Debris Flow	Steamboat	-	Broadcast Media reported Geiger Grade (NV-341) located 5.0 mi NNW of Virginia City, NV, was closed in both directions between Rim Rock Drive to Cartwright Road due to rock and mudslides. The heaviest rainfall occurred between 4:00 PM and 5:30 PM.
July 2018	Debris Flow	Steamboat	-	KRNV NBC Channel 4 reported a debris flow over Kivett Lane south of Geiger Grade Road due to heavy rainfall from thunderstorms in the area. The debris flow occurred several minutes before photographs were taken. No damage estimates were available.
August 2003	Heavy Rain	Steamboat	-	One third of an inch of rain fell in 15 minutes from a thunderstorm.
September 1998	Heavy Rain	Steamboat	-	9 minute rainfall: 0.63 inches due to thunderstorm. Reported by Alert rain gauge at Bailey Creek.

Every storm recorded in Washoe 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

5 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
Galena Creek Schoolhouse	3.3 miles	2011
Peleg Brown Ranch	3.3 miles	1994
Old Winters Ranch/Winters Mansion	5.1 miles	1974
Bowers Mansion	7.1 miles	1976
Twaddle-Pedroli Ranch	7.9 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79001466 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washoe County	All 83 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.