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One of 69 National Register listings published here for Josephine County · listed in 2017 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Reed-Cobb-Bowser House and Barn
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- Address. 1700 Merlin Rd., Merlin, 97526
- When was it listed? October 2017
- Category. building
- Census division. Northwest Josephine
- National Register reference number. 100001772 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
557 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 557 fires within 5 miles of Reed-Cobb-Bowser House and Barn between 1992 and 2020, burning about 189 acres in total. 43 started naturally. 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 132 |
| Debris and open burning | 86 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 68 |
| Smoking | 65 |
| Natural | 43 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 32 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 30 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 27 |
| Fireworks | 27 |
| Other causes | 26 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 7 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 3 |
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 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Medford District | GRANITE HILL 3 |
| 9 September 2001 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Grants Pass Unit | HIGHLAND AVE |
| 9 September 1998 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Grants Pass Unit | HIGHLAND |
| 8 September 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Grants Pass Unit | ROBERTSON BRIDGE |
| 7 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Medford District | DEVILS SLIDE |
| 7 September 2015 | Smoking | under an acre | Medford District | PORTLAND AVENUE |
| 7 September 2006 | Other causes | under an acre | Grants Pass Unit | POTTS WAY 764 |
| 7 September 1996 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Grants Pass Unit | EAST CROW ROAD |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 44 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Reed-Cobb-Bowser House and Barn: 20 past producers, 10 producers, 7 occurrences, 7 prospects. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lambtongue | Gold, Silver, Copper | Producer | Chalcopyrite, Malachite, Pyrite | |
| Lambtongue Mine | Gold, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Molybdenum Occurrence | Copper, Molybdenum | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Molybdenite | |
| White Wonder | Silica, Silver, Nickel, Gold, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Big Four Placer | Gold, Platinum | Past Producer | ||
| Big Four Placer | Gold, Platinum | Producer | Stream Placer | |
| Chrome Prospect | Chromium | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Molybdenum Occurrence | Copper, Molybdenum | Prospect | ||
| Unnamed P9it | Granite | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Granite | Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Merlin, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2011: 1 heavy rain, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 2011 | Hail | Merlin | - | Reported hail size close to golf balls with lots of lightning. |
| April 2005 | Heavy Rain | Merlin | - | A spotter 2 SSW of Merlin recorded 2.00 inches of rain in 45 minutes ending at 1655 PDT. |
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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rogue River Valley Grange No. 469 | 5.0 miles | 1992 | |
 | Thomas Croxton House | 5.4 miles | 1979 |
 | Amos E. Voorhies House | 5.5 miles | 1990 |
 | George H. Lundburg House | 5.5 miles | 1987 |
 | Michael Clemens House | 5.5 miles | 1982 |
 | Hugo Community Baptist Church | 5.5 miles | 1990 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001772 in Record Group 79. |
| Josephine County | All 69 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.