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One of 154 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1933.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Mt. Stella Lookout
Built in 1933. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Approx. 2.5 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. Butte Falls-Prospect
- When was it built? 1933
- National Register reference number. 00000511 - 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 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 146 fires within 5 miles of Mt. Stella Lookout between 1992 and 2018, burning about 904 acres in total. 124 started naturally. None 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 | 124 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 | UNION |
| 6 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest | BRUTUS |
| 4 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest | not named |
| 3 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest | not named |
| 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 |
| 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 |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Mt. Stella Lookout: 2 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Copeland Creek Quarry | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Copeland Creek Quarry | Gold | Prospect | ||
| Foster Creek Site | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Foster Creek Site | Gold | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
6 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prospect, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 3 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2019 | Hail | Prospect | - | Hail 1.0 inch in diameter was reported at the ODOT station 1 N Prospect. Trees were down as well. A Pacificorp employee who works at 1111 Mill Creek Drive in Prospect (about 1 mile southwest of downtown Prospect) reported 1 inch hail between 1515 PDT and 1520 PDT. The hail caused thousands of dollars of damage to 9 work vehicles and 4 personal vehicles. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prospect | - | Multiple trees down along with numerous limbs. Times estimated from radar returns. |
| May 2017 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prospect | - | Multiple trees down along with numerous limbs. Time estimated from radar returns. |
| May 2017 | Hail | Prospect | - | Hail measured from residual piles along the road roughly 20 hours after the event. Time estimated from radar returns. |
| June 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Prospect | - | KDRV-TV reported a large tree was blown down, closing Highway 62 until it was cleared. |
| July 2010 | Hail | Prospect | - | Widespread 1 inch hail and heavy rain reported in the Prospect area. |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Union Creek Historic District | 2.4 miles | 1980 |
 | Whaleback Snow-Survey Cabin | 7.6 miles | 2000 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00000511 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.