Photograph of Roba Ranch — Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Roba Ranch, The

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Roba Ranch is a pioneer ranch located near the small unincorporated community of Paulina in Crook County, Oregon. The ranch is named for George and Mary Roba, sheep ranchers who acquired the property in 1892.”
Wikipedia article Roba Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Crook County · listed in 2007 · 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 4 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 66953 Roba Ranch Rd., Paulina, 97751
When was it listed? November 2007
Category. building
Census division. Crooked River
National Register reference number. 07001159 - 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Roba Ranch, The between 1992 and 2019, burning about 516 acres in total. 38 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	38
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
4 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Ochoco National Forest	0853
17 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Ochoco National Forest	1678
9 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Ochoco National Forest	0697 PR
9 August 2019	Natural	under an acre	Ochoco National Forest	0671 PR
8 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Ochoco National Forest	0715
5 August 2016	Natural	1.5 acres	Ochoco National Forest	0441 PR
5 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Prineville District	769
4 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Ochoco National Forest	0975

Every fire recorded in Crook County

Storms near this property

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Paulina, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports in 2004: 2 flash flood, 2 hail. 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 2004	Flash Flood	Paulina	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Paulina	-	no account filed
June 2004	Hail	Paulina	-	no account filed
June 2004	Flash Flood	Paulina	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crook 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 07001159 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crook County	All 6 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.
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.