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Photograph of Fish Lake Shelter
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fish Lake 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. South of OR 140 approx. 25 mi. NE of Ashland, Ashland
  • 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. 00000503 - 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

146 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Fish Lake Shelter between 1992 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 109 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
Natural109
Recreation and ceremony22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Equipment and vehicle use6
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2017Naturalunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestBUTTE CREEK
7 September 2017Naturalunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestGRIZZLY CANYON
7 September 2017Naturalunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestBEAR SPRINGS
6 September 2014Naturalunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestDUCK
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestWHITE PINE
5 September 2003Naturalunder an acreFremont-Winema National ForestBILLIE GOAT
5 September 2003Naturalunder an acreFremont-Winema National ForestFAMILY
4 September 1992Naturalunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National Forestnot named

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashland, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 9 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2015Thunderstorm WindAshland-A former local weathercaster reported winds gusting 50-60 mph in Ashland.
March 2011Thunderstorm WindAshland-Numerous trees were broken or uprooted when the squall line went through. ODOT reported Oregon Highway 62 was closed by fallen trees. A house, shed, and mobile home in Rogue River were destroyed by falling trees. Another house was destroyed in Jacksonville.
August 2009HailAshland-Most of the hailstones were nickel sized, some were quarter sized. The larger ones measured 11/8 inches in diameter.
August 2009HailAshland-Golf ball size hail was reported at this location and time.
August 2007Flash FloodAshland-A member of the public reported that water in Hamilton creek at the corner of East Main and Clay Creek was one foot from bankfull and rising rapidly.|
August 2007HailAshland-An Ashland Emergency Manager reported large hail for a brief period in the late afternoon. This was the only report of severe hail among numerous reports of smaller hail, so it is assumed that the severe hail coverage was local and and period of time was brief.
August 2007Flash FloodAshland-A former spotter in South Ashland reported 3.05 inches of rain in this time interval.
August 2007Flash FloodAshland-A spotter in South Ashland reported one foot of water running over the intersection of Whiteman and Siskiyou.
May 2005HailAshland-A spotter 3SE Ashland reported 0.75 inch hail with a thunderstorm.
August 2003HailAshland-Spotter JA58 reported hail, the largest of which was golf ball size.
July 1998HailAshland-Thunderstorm produced dime size hail in north Ashland.
December 1996FloodAshland-small stream flooding was county wide
July 1995HailAshland-no account filed
July 1995HailAshland-no account filed
August 1993HailAshland-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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Big Elk Guard Station3.2 miles2000
Willow Prairie Cabin3.9 miles2000
Dead Indian Soda Springs Shelter7.8 miles2000

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000503 in Record Group 79.
Jackson CountyAll 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.