Captain Jack's Stronghold

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1886.

From the record

“Captain Jack's Stronghold was a holdout of the Modoc people that is located between Tulelake and Canby, California. The stronghold, which is now part of Lava Beds National Monument, is named for Native American chief Kintpuash who was also known as Captain Jack.”
Wikipedia article Captain Jack's Stronghold, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Siskiyou County · listed in 1973 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. S of Tulelake, Lava Beds National Monument, Tulelake, 96134
When was it listed? September 1973
Category. district
Census division. Tulelake
National Register reference number. 73000259 - 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.

Then and now

1886 to 1993

The 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.

Topographic sheet covering Captain Jack's Stronghold, surveyed 1993

Topographic sheet covering Captain Jack's Stronghold, surveyed 1886

Fires near this property

88 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 88 fires within 5 miles of Captain Jack's Stronghold between 1992 and 2020, burning about 8,021 acres in total. 40 started naturally. 1 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	40
Debris and open burning	35
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Modoc National Forest	HOUSE
5 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge	FIELD
4 September 1997	Natural	4.0 acres	Lava Beds National Monument	DOBIE
30 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge	SPUD FIRE
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge	BARNTOP
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Lava Beds National Monument	SNIFF
21 September 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7.0 acres	Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge	HOSPITAL
2 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	35 acres	Tule Lake National Wildlife Refuge	FROG

Every fire recorded in Siskiyou County

Storms near this property

2 since 1997

Regional 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Tulelake	-	See below.
June 1997	Hail	Tulelake	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Siskiyou County

Maps showing this location

12 surveys

United 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 Captain Jacks Stronghold quadrangle1:24000
1993 USGS Captain Jacks Stronghold quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Hospital Rock Army Camp Site	1.6 miles	1973
Thomas-Wright Battle Site	3.7 miles	1978
Schonchin Butte Fire Lookout	5.9 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73000259 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.