Hershberger Mountain Lookout

Built in 1925. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Hershberger Mountain Lookout is a lookout structure located near Prospect, Oregon, in the United States. It was built in 1925 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 29, 2000.”
Wikipedia article Hershberger Mountain Lookout, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1925.

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. Approx. 7 mi. N of Union Cr., Prospect
When was it listed? December 2000
Category. building
Also known as. US Forest Service Historic Structures on the Rogue River National Forest MPS
Census division. South Umpqua
When was it built? 1925
National Register reference number. 00000507 - 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

234 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 234 fires within 5 miles of Hershberger Mountain Lookout between 1992 and 2020, burning about 25,706 acres in total. 213 started naturally. 4 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	213
Recreation and ceremony	11
Arson/incendiarism	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	1
Firearms and explosives use	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 2008	Natural	1.7 acres	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	WEAVER
7 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	7.0 acres	Umpqua National Forest	ROCKY RIDGE
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	LOG
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	FISH
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	BUCK
6 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Umpqua National Forest	FISH
6 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Umpqua National Forest	not named
6 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Umpqua National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Hershberger Mountain Lookout: 6 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sulfides, Silver, Mercury. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Cove Sulfur Prospect	Sulfur	Prospect
E.H. Roseborough Claim	Arsenic	Occurrence
Foster Creek Gold Prospects	Gold, Silver, Mercury	Occurrence	1965
Foster Creek Gold Prospects	Gold, Silver, Mercury	Occurrence
Last Chance Sulfur Mine	Sulfides	Occurrence	1904
Yellow Rock #1	Tungsten	Occurrence
Foster Creek Site	Gold	Past Producer
Foster Creek Site	Gold	Occurrence
Ralls Placer	Gold	Past Producer
Unnamed Prospect	Gold	Unknown

Every working recorded in Douglas 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000507 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas County	All 47 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.