Wellen, Oregon

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 1 record

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Lost Creek Bridgelisted 1979 · 0.6 miles away

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1891 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:250000
• 1893 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:250000, 6 printings
• 1897 USGS Ashland quadrangle1:250000
• 1938 USGS Medford quadrangle1:125000, 3 printings
• 1954 USGS Medford quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1955 USGS Medford quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1957 USGS Medford quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS Medford quadrangle1:250000
• 1974 USGS Eagle Point quadrangle1:24000
• 1974 USGS Medford NE quadrangle1:24000
• 1978 USGS Medford quadrangle1:100000
• 1983 USGS Eagle Point quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 243 fires within 5 miles of Wellen (historical) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 429 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 13 were 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Brownsboro
• Eagle Point
• Mountain View (historical)
• White City
• Four Corners
• Climax

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 60 workings within 5 miles of Wellen (historical): 32 past producers, 24 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 24 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Chromium, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Jackson County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1135377. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.