Dutchman Peak Lookout

Built in 1927. 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: Building · built in 1927.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. FS Rd. 20 approx. 25 mi. SW of Ashland, Ashland, 97530
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. Southwest Jackson
When was it built? 1927
National Register reference number. 00000509 - 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

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of Dutchman Peak Lookout between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,374 acres in total. 110 started naturally. 2 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	110
Recreation and ceremony	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	2

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
9 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	BIG RED MOUNTAIN
9 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Klamath National Forest	TRAPPER
6 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	BEAR
6 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
4 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
30 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	KETTLE FIRE
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
18 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	RED MOUNTAIN

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 55 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 55 workings within 5 miles of Dutchman Peak Lookout: 19 past producers, 16 occurrences, 13 prospects, 4 unknowns. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Mercury, Molybdenum. 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
Collins	Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Grubstake	Silver, Molybdenum, Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Haskins & Traverso	Gold, Copper, Silver	Occurrence	Vein
Iron Hat	Copper, Zinc	Occurrence	Malachite
Iron Hat	Copper, Zinc	Prospect
Purvis	Molybdenum, Gold	Occurrence	Molybdenite
Red Mountain Mines	Chromium, Platinum, Rhodium, Palladium, Iridium, Ruthenium	Producer	Chromite
Red Mountain Mines	Chromium, Rhodium, Platinum	Past Producer
Snowy Ridge Mine	Chromium, Iron	Past Producer	1940, 1941
Collins	Gold, Silver	Past Producer

Every working 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	A former local weathercaster reported winds gusting 50-60 mph in Ashland.
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	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 2009	Hail	Ashland	-	Most of the hailstones were nickel sized, some were quarter sized. The larger ones measured 11/8 inches in diameter.
August 2009	Hail	Ashland	-	Golf ball size hail was reported at this location and time.
August 2007	Flash Flood	Ashland	-	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 2007	Hail	Ashland	-	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 2007	Flash Flood	Ashland	-	A former spotter in South Ashland reported 3.05 inches of rain in this time interval.
August 2007	Flash Flood	Ashland	-	A spotter in South Ashland reported one foot of water running over the intersection of Whiteman and Siskiyou.
May 2005	Hail	Ashland	-	A spotter 3SE Ashland reported 0.75 inch hail with a thunderstorm.
August 2003	Hail	Ashland	-	Spotter JA58 reported hail, the largest of which was golf ball size.
July 1998	Hail	Ashland	-	Thunderstorm produced dime size hail in north Ashland.
December 1996	Flood	Ashland	-	small stream flooding was county wide
July 1995	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
August 1993	Hail	Ashland	-	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
	Wrangle Gap Shelter	1.9 miles	2000
	Squaw Peak Lookout	6.5 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000509 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.
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.
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.