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Photograph of Wallowa Ranger Station
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Wallowa Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The Wallowa Ranger Station at 602 W. 1st St. in Wallowa, Oregon is a historic station built in 1936. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009; the listing included five contributing buildings.”

Wikipedia article Wallowa Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Wallowa County · listed in 2009 · category: District.

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 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 602 W. 1st St., Wallowa, 97885
  • When was it listed? October 2009
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
  • Census division. Wallowa
  • Architectural style. Forest Service rustic
  • National Register reference number. 09000865 - 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Wallowa Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 210 acres in total. 23 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
Natural23
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning2
Recreation and ceremony2
Equipment and vehicle use1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 August 2019Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHOT FENCE
5 August 2015Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSPOTTY
5 August 2000Naturalunder an acreWallowa UnitLOWER DIAMOND FIRE
4 August 1994Natural160 acresWallowa UnitBIG CANYON BREAKS
31 August 2001Naturalunder an acreWallowa UnitROCK CREEK JUNIPER
21 August 1994Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWallowa UnitGOEBEL SPOT
21 August 1993Naturalunder an acreWallowa UnitCORRAL
2 August 1994Naturalunder an acreWallowa UnitUPPER ELK FLATS

Every fire recorded in Wallowa County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Wallowa Ranger Station: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Minam-Spring CreekSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Minam-Spring Creek PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Stones Sand & GravelStonePast Producer
Stones Sand & GravelStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wallowa County

Storms near this property

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wallowa, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 3 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
May 2009Tornado (EF0)Wallowa$100,000Eyewitnesses saw the cover being ripped off the sewer ponds and rotating debris being blown into the air across the Wallowa Rover.
April 2019FloodWallowa$50,000Field and roadway flooding was seen along the Grande Ronde River and numerous other small streams with significant snowmelt and heavy rain.
June 1999Thunderstorm WindWallowa$1,000Strong winds from a thunderstorm knocked down several trees in Wallowa. Hail also fell with this storm.
August 2009HailWallowa-In additon, heavy rain fell for almost 1 hour.
September 2002WildfireWallowa-Around 200 firefighters were assigned to the Anniversary fire, which was sparked by lightning on an unknown date near the bottom of Big Canyon. Three engines, one dozer, four air tankers, one helicopter, and two water tenders were assigned to this fire, which burned 290 acres.
July 2012HailWallowa-no account filed
July 2012HailWallowa-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wallowa 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Hunter-Morelock House0.5 miles1985
Lostine Pharmacy7.5 miles2014

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 09000865 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wallowa CountyAll 22 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.