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Photograph of Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park
Photograph by Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Home Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park is a Douglas County, Nevada, US, park, preserving one of the state's first ranches.”

Wikipedia article Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • Address. W of Minden, Minden, 89423
  • When was it listed? December 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Genoa-Jacks Valley
  • National Register reference number. 80002466 - 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Home Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 9 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
Natural9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Debris and open burning2
Other causes1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
20 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestKINGSBURY
7 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestPINE
30 August 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestWALLEY
3 August 2017Naturalunder an acreHumboldt-Toiyabe National ForestMOTT
29 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreEast Fork Fire and Paramedic District88
27 August 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitKINGSBURY
19 August 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitKINSGBURY
28 July 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreLake Tahoe Basin Management UnitWARRIOR

Every fire recorded in Douglas 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 Home Ranch: 6 occurrences, 5 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Uranium, Sulfur, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Granite GroupUranium, CopperOccurrenceChrysocolla
Hunch and Lucky Strike ClaimsUranium, ThoriumOccurrenceAllanite
Kingbury Queen ProspectQuartz, UraniumProspect
Section 21 ProspectCopperOccurrenceVein
Valleys Hot SpringGeothermalProducer
Section 10 Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction, SulfurOccurrence
Section 15 Gravel PitSand and Gravel, Construction, SulfurOccurrence
Granite Group Nos 1-5UraniumProspect
Hunch and Lucky Strike ClaimsUraniumProspect
Kingsbury QueenUraniumOccurrenceAcmite, Torbernite

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

8 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Minden, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2001 and 2018: 4 heavy rain, 2 flood, 1 lightning, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2006FloodMinden$524,000no account filed
July 2001LightningMinden$2,000no account filed
November 2018Heavy RainMinden-CO-OP Observer in Minden reported 0.52 inches of rainfall from 21 November 1100PST to 22 November 0600PST.
April 2018FloodMinden-Trained weather spotter reported that the East Fork of the Carson River was above its banks between Cedarwood Drive and Muller Lane. Ending time of flooding is based upon data from a nearby USGS gauge.
May 2018Heavy RainMinden-COOP observer station MINN2, Minden reported 0.58 inches of rainfall over a 24-hour period from 24 May 0500PST to 25 May 0500PST.
July 2005Flash FloodMinden-Heavy rainfall over the Pine Nut Mountains caused flash flooding in the Johnson Lane area north of Minden. Several roads were closed because of the high water.
July 2003Heavy RainMinden-A spotter measured .60 inches of rain in 15 minutes from a thunderstorm.
November 2002Heavy RainMinden-24 hour rainfall total of 1.75 inches.

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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

6 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Minden Elementary School1.2 miles2008
Minden Wool Warehouse1.4 miles1986
Carson Valley Improvement Club Hall1.4 miles1983
Farmers' Bank of Carson Valley1.4 miles2000
Douglas County Courthouse1.4 miles1986
Minden Butter Manufacturing Company1.4 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80002466 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas CountyAll 24 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.