Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
From the record
“The Whaleback Snow-Survey Cabin, about 10 miles (16 km) north of Prospect in the Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest in southwest Oregon, is a log cabin with a "snow tower" built in 1937. It is situated on the east slope of Whaleback Mountain.”
Wikipedia article Whaleback Snow-Survey Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 154 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
Also known as. US Forest Service Historic Structures on the Rogue River National Forest MPS
National Register reference number.00000514- 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
136 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 136 fires within 5 miles of Whaleback Snow-Survey Cabin
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 33,130 acres in total. 126 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
126
Recreation and ceremony
8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Whaleback Snow-Survey Cabin: 3 past producers, 2 occurrences.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Lead, Gold, Silver, Copper, Arsenic, Zinc, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional 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.
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.
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.
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.
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