Gold Creek Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Gold Creek Ranger Station is located in Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest in Elko County, Nevada, USA. It was built in 1910 to administer the Ruby Mountains Forest Reserve, which became Humboldt National Forest.”
Wikipedia article Gold Creek Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 7 National Register listings published here for Elko County · listed in 1992 · 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 6 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. E of Mountain City, Humboldt NF, Mountain City
When was it listed? September 1992
Category. building
Census division. Jarbidge
National Register reference number. 92001187 - 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

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Gold Creek Ranger Station between 1992 and 2015, burning about 38,378 acres in total. 3 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	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
29 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	75 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	WATERLOG
2 August 1992	Natural	38,200 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	COFFEE POT
5 July 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	LOST GULCH
5 July 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	MARTIN CREEK
4 July 2001	Natural	3.0 acres	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	SUNFLOWER FLAT
18 July 1999	Natural	100 acres	Elko District Office	BLACK MT
16 July 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest	BIG BEND 14

Every fire recorded in Elko County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 49 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 49 workings within 5 miles of Gold Creek Ranger Station: 31 past producers, 10 occurrences, 5 unknowns, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Tungsten, Silver, Lead. 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
Clipper Alder	Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper, Iron	Past Producer	1909, 1912
Coleman	Silver, Gold, Copper, Stone	Past Producer	1978
Diamond Jim Mine	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper	Unknown
Foss	Antimony, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Stibnite
Garnet	Molybdenum, Tungsten, Iron, Uranium	Past Producer	1949
Gold Centre	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Gold Ore	Gold, Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Gold Standard #2	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver	Past Producer
Gribble Antimony	Tungsten, Copper, Molybdenum	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Scheelite
Knowles Bros.	Tungsten, Uranium, Molybdenum, Copper, Bismuth	Past Producer	1949

Every working recorded in Elko County

Storms near this property

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mountain City, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2003: 1 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2003	Flash Flood	Mountain City	-	Heavy rains washed mud onto 4 sections of the Bruneau River Road near Mountain City blocking the road.
July 2001	Hail	Mountain City	-	A severe thunderstorm produced wind gusts to 66 mph at the Antelope Lake Raws then dropped 1 inch diameter hail in Mountain City.

Every storm recorded in Elko 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 92001187 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.