Photograph of Dead Indian Soda Springs — Photograph by ZabMilenko, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dead Indian Soda Springs Shelter

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Dead Indian Soda Springs are an assortment of small mineral springs that feed into Dead Indian Creek near Eagle Point, Oregon, United States. The springs are rich in sodium carbonate, iron, magnesium, and sodium hydroxide.”
Wikipedia article Dead Indian Soda Springs, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 end of S. Fork Little Butte Cr. Rd., Eagle Point
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. Southeast Jackson
National Register reference number. 00000498 - 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

141 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 141 fires within 5 miles of Dead Indian Soda Springs Shelter between 1992 and 2020, burning about 498 acres in total. 86 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	86
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Debris and open burning	10
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Other causes	4
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	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
7 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	SHELL ROCK
7 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	ELUCK
7 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	ROBINSON PRAIRIE
7 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	GRIZZLY CANYON
7 September 2003	Other causes	under an acre	Medford Unit	LILLY GLEN
7 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Medford Unit	HWY 140 MM 22
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	276 acres	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	LITTLE BUTTE
4 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	80 acres	Medford Unit	GRIZZLY CREEK

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dead Indian Soda Springs Shelter: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Thorndike Pit	Stone	Past Producer
	Thorndike Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working 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

4 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
Big Elk Guard Station	5.0 miles	2000
Willow Prairie Cabin	5.6 miles	2000
Fish Lake Shelter	7.8 miles	2000
Reginald Parsons Dead Indian Lodge	7.9 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000498 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.