Photograph by National Park Service, Public domain. Via
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Baker Ranger Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
From the record
“Baker Ranger Station was established in 1911 at the edge of Baker, Nevada to administer U.S. government lands in White Pine County, Nevada. The original 80 acres (32 ha) plot was first known as the Baker Administrative Site, becoming a year-round ranger station in 1918 for the Baker Ranger District of Nevada National Forest.”
Wikipedia article Baker Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 21 National Register listings published here for White Pine County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.
Architect. United States Forest Service, Civilian Conservation Corps
National Register reference number.95001224- 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
31 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 31 fires within 5 miles of Baker Ranger Station
between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,218 acres in total. 26 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
26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Baker Ranger Station: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
2 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.
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.
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