Granite Creek Station

The Granite Creek Ranch is located on Highway 34 before Fly Ranch. At one time, Granite Creek Ranch was known as Granite Creek Station and Camp McKee.

External Resources

• GNIS: Old Granite Creek Station (historical) Map
  • Citation: "Original township survey plats, published in the 1800's. 1895"
  • Alternate: Camp McKee, "'Nevada': 1881, scale 1 inch=24 miles. A photocopy with no additional information available, Nevada Historical Society document."
• Helen S. Carlson, "Nevada Place Names: A Geographical Dictionary," p. 126
  • Granite Creek Desert, between the Smoke Creek Desert and the Black Rock Desert (NK 10-11)
  • Granite Creek named an early station on the Honey Lake Road where two people were killed in March, 1865 (SPD p. 165)
  • Granite Creek: A post office in Roop County: July 13, 1866 - August 6, 1867 (FTM p. 12)
  • Granite Creek: A mining district named by James Raser and James D. Murray. The name was changed to Donnelly District in August 1902. (DM)
• 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."