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

Ed Eskelin Ranch Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Ed Eskelin Ranch is a historic residential and agricultural complex in Lake County, Oregon, United States. As a historic resource, the complex captures elements of two different phases of early 20th century settlement in the Fort Rock basin.”

Wikipedia article Ed Eskelin Ranch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1991 · 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 5 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Eskelin, Ed, Ranch Complex - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. HC 61, Fort Rock Valley, Silver Lake, 97638
  • When was it listed? February 1991
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Silver Lake-Fort Rock
  • National Register reference number. 91000062 - 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Ed Eskelin Ranch Complex between 1992 and 2020, burning about 81 acres in total. 27 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
Natural27
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
8 September 2017Naturalunder an acreLakeview DistrictHORNING GAP
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreLakeview DistrictARROW GAP
26 September 2000Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLakeview DistrictBURNT EAGL
16 September 1995Naturalunder an acreLakeview DistrictSUBSTATION
15 September 2001Naturalunder an acreLakeview DistrictBIG BUCK
7 August 2015Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLakeview DistrictSPRUAGE LANE
30 August 2016Naturalunder an acreLakeview DistrictTUFF
29 August 2002Naturalunder an acreLakeview DistrictHAYES

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Ed Eskelin Ranch Complex: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Fork RockStonePast Producer
Fork RockStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
MilesStonePast Producer
Miles PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silver Lake, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
August 2012Thunderstorm WindSilver Lake-A spotter SSW Silver Lake reported an estimated gust to 74 mph associated with a nearby thunderstorm.
July 2010HailSilver Lake-Hail 0.88 inches in diameter reported by a spotter.
July 1997Funnel CloudSilver Lake-FOREST SERVICE PERSONNEL REPORTED TWO FUNNEL CLOUDS NEAR SILVER LAKE.
July 1998Flash FloodSilver Lake-no account filed

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 recordThe nomination case file for reference 91000062 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake CountyAll 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.
  • 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.