Birch Creek Ranch Historic Rural Landscape

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Malheur County · listed in 1997 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Owyhee R., jct. with Birch Cr. and Gaging Stn., Jordan Valley, 97910
When was it listed? August 1997
Category. district
Census division. Juntura
National Register reference number. 97000882 - 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

5 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Birch Creek Ranch Historic Rural Landscape between 1998 and 2012, burning about 1,612 acres in total. 5 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	5

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
19 August 2003	Natural	735 acres	Vale District	BIRCH CK
15 August 2006	Natural	817 acres	Vale District	HOLE IN THE GROUND
15 August 1998	Natural	32 acres	Vale District	BLUE CYN
2 July 2006	Natural	8.0 acres	Vale District	DIAMOND BUTTE
15 July 2012	Natural	20 acres	Vale District	HOLD OUT

Every fire recorded in Malheur County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Birch Creek Ranch Historic Rural Landscape: 4 producers, 3 past producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gemstone, Geothermal. 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
Unnamed Hot Spring	Geothermal	Producer
Christine Marie	Gemstone	Past Producer
Christine Marie	Gemstone	Producer
Gemstones Mine	Gemstone	Past Producer
Succor Creek	Gemstone	Past Producer
Succor Creek	Gemstone	Producer
Unnamed Site	Gemstone	Producer

Every working recorded in Malheur 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 97000882 in Record Group 79.
Malheur County	All 19 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.