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One of 19 National Register listings published here for Siskiyou County · listed in 2018 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Camp Tulelake
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.
The listing
- Address. Hill R., 2 mi. S of jct. with CA 161,World War II Valor in the Pacific NM (Tule Lake Unit), Tulelake, 96134
- When was it listed? March 2018
- Category. district
- Census division. Tulelake
- National Register reference number. 100002176 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Then and now
1886 to 1993The ground this property stands on, surveyed 107 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
Fires near this property
45 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Camp Tulelake between 1992 and 2015, burning about 903 acres in total. 6 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 9 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Natural | 6 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge | MDF ASST#1 |
| 16 September 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge | POWERLINE |
| 16 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Modoc National Forest | HAWK |
| 7 August 2013 | Natural | 13 acres | Modoc National Forest | MDF DH OKLAHOMA |
| 31 August 1996 | Equipment and vehicle use | 250 acres | Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge | SHEEPY |
| 31 August 1996 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 76 acres | Modoc National Forest | SHEEP |
| 30 August 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Modoc National Forest | INCINERATOR |
| 24 August 2005 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge | LOOKOUT |
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Camp Tulelake: 3 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basalt Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Basalt Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Cinder Pits | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tulelake, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2002: 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.
Maps showing this location
12 surveysUnited States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
- 1886 USGS Modoc Lava Bed quadrangle1:250000
- 1892 USGS Modoc Lava Bed quadrangle1:250000 - 6 printings
- 1892 USGS Modoc Lava-Bed quadrangle1:250000
- 1950 USGS Mt Dome quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1950 USGS Mt. Dome quadrangle1:62500 - 2 printings
- 1954 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
- 1958 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
- 1965 USGS Alturas quadrangle1:250000
- 1984 USGS Tulelake quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
- 1985 USGS Hatfield quadrangle1:24000
- 1993 USGS Hatfield quadrangle1:24000
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002176 in Record Group 79. |
| Siskiyou 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.
- 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.