Imperial Stock Ranch Headquarters Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Imperial Stock Ranch Headquarters Complex is a historic district near Shaniko in Wasco County, Oregon, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Imperial Stock Ranch Headquarters Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Wasco County · listed in 1994 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Hinton Rd. 3 mi. E of jct. with Bakeoven Rd., Shaniko, 97037
When was it listed? August 1994
Category. district
Census division. Antelope
National Register reference number. 94000808 - 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Imperial Stock Ranch Headquarters Complex between 1994 and 1995, burning about 1,056 acres in total. 2 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	2

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
3 September 1995	Natural	425 acres	Prineville District	MAKEN CNYN
22 June 1994	Natural	631 acres	Prineville District	BUCKHOLLOW

Every fire recorded in Wasco County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Imperial Stock Ranch Headquarters Complex: 4 past producers, 4 producers. 4 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Shaniko Rock Product	Stone	Past Producer
Shaniko Rock Products Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Snodgass	Stone	Past Producer
Snodgass Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Ward	Stone	Past Producer
Ward Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Wasco County

Storms near this property

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shaniko, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2020: 2 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Shaniko	-	Strong winds estimated at 100-115 mph downed portions of two high tension power towers.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Shaniko	-	Completely destroyed riverside camps along Deschutes River with debris everywhere.

Every storm recorded in Wasco 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.

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Shaniko Historic District	6.8 miles	1982
	Columbia Southern Hotel	6.8 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000808 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wasco County	All 31 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.