Parker Meadows Shelter

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

One of 154 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2000 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Near Forest Rd. 37 approx. 15 mi. NE. of Butte Falls, Butte Falls
When was it listed? December 2000
Category. structure
Also known as. US Forest Service Historic Structures on the Rogue River National Forest MPS
Census division. Butte Falls-Prospect
National Register reference number. 00000466 - 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.

Fires near this property

124 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 124 fires within 5 miles of Parker Meadows Shelter between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3,274 acres in total. 122 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	122
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
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	MIDDLE
3 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
29 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
29 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Medford District	TITANIC
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butte Falls, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2010: 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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
December 2004	Flash Flood	Butte Falls	-	A spotter at Hwy 140 10 SE Butte Falls reported that Butte Creek had water running over the road and the creek rising rapidly.
August 2010	Hail	Butte Falls	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Lodgepole Guard Station	4.6 miles	1991
	Imnaha Guard Station	7.1 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000466 in Record Group 79.
Jackson County	All 154 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.