Granite Creek Station

The Granite Creek Ranch is located on Highway 34 before Fly Ranch.

• Theresa and little Joe Ugalde at Granite Ranch July 1941 (Photo)
• Joe Blackwell, "Granite Ranch Gerlach" (Photo)
• Sessions S. Wheeler, "The Black Rock Desert," p 157. The Granite Ranch was bought by Louis Gerlach in the 1890s.
• Joe Ugalde owned Granite Ranch for many years.
  • Residents buy town, August 16, 1975, Victoria Advocate. Joe Ugalde quoted.
• San Francisco Chronicle, "Death on the Desert" (from the Reno Journal), August 11, 1889, p. 12. Louis Dean reports the death of a L.H. Long from Roseburg, Oregon. Long died within two miles of Granite Station. "He had wandered back within site of the ranch - probably delirious, looking for water. The ground was torn and dug up in every direction."