BlockFrom the record
One of 120 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 2002 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Silver Creek Youth Camp-Silver Falls State Park
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
The listing
- Listed as. Silver Creek Youth Camp--Silver Falls State Park - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 20024 Silver Falls Hwy., Sublimity
- When was it listed? June 2002
- Category. district
- Census division. Silverton
- Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
- National Register reference number. 02000673 - 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
78 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Silver Creek Youth Camp-Silver Falls State Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 235 acres in total. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 30 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 10 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Santiam Unit | BRANCH LANE |
| 8 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | SAW FIRE |
| 7 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Santiam Unit | LITTLE N. F. #2 |
| 6 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Northwest Oregon District | LOOK OUT |
| 6 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Santiam Unit | MOLL FIRE |
| 5 September 1998 | Natural | under an acre | Santiam Unit | SMITH CRK.FIRE |
| 4 September 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.8 acres | Northwest Oregon District | POLLY POWER |
| 3 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Santiam Unit | FERN RIDGE PILE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 19 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Silver Creek Youth Camp-Silver Falls State Park: 16 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Clay, Manganese, Aluminum, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bula Mine | Gold | Occurrence | Gold, Pyrite | |
| Hagel Rock Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Salem Bauxite Deposit | Aluminum, Titanium, Metal | Occurrence | Bauxite, Ilmenite | |
| C M Janick | Aluminum, Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Jaeger | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Jaeger | Manganese | Past Producer | ||
| Matheny | Aluminum, Clay | Occurrence | ||
| C M Janick | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Clay Occurrence #5 | Clay | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
2 since 2020Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sublimity, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2020: 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. 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 2020 | Hail | Sublimity | - | Hail up to the size of pennies accumulated up to 2 inches deep on the ground. |
| September 2020 | Heavy Rain | Sublimity | - | Lots of rain fall from the public. |
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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Silver Falls State Park Concession Building Area | 2.8 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 02000673 in Record Group 79. |
| Marion County | All 120 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.