David L. Shirk Ranch

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“Shirk Ranch is a historic ranch located in the Guano Valley of eastern Lake County, Oregon, United States. The ranch was originally homesteaded in 1881.”
Wikipedia article David L. Shirk Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 2009 · category: District.

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

The listing

Listed as. Shirk, David L., Ranch - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Guano Valley, Sec. 35, Township 38 S., Range 27 E., Willamette Meridian, Adel
When was it listed? November 2009
Category. district
Census division. Warner Valley
National Register reference number. 09000891 - 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

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of David L. Shirk Ranch between 1998 and 2006, burning about 2 acres in total. 1 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	1
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
24 August 1998	Natural	2.0 acres	Lakeview District	BARRY
7 July 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Lakeview District	DOHERTY

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adel, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 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
June 2009	Hail	Adel	-	One inch hail was reported at the Plush store. The thunderstorm also had heavy rain and gusty winds. Hail covered the ground. Debris flows occurred on State Highway 140 west of Adel, covering the road in six places along a one mile stretch.

Every storm recorded in Lake 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 09000891 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake County	All 14 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.