Santiam Wagon Road

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“The Santiam Wagon Road was a freight route in the U.S. state of Oregon between the Willamette Valley and Central Oregon regions from 1865 to the 1930s. It is considered one of the most important historical routes in the state.”
Wikipedia article Santiam Wagon Road, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Linn County · listed in 2010 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Willamette National Forest, Deschutes National Forest, Cascaia, Sisters
When was it listed? September 2010
Category. district
Census division. East Linn
National Register reference number. 10000795 - 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

34 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Santiam Wagon Road between 1995 and 2017, burning about 12 acres in total. 28 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	28
Recreation and ceremony	5
Debris and open burning	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
30 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Sweet Home Unit - ODF	COUGAR CREEK
10 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	COOL CAMP
1 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	SODA FORK
9 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	GOLD
8 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	INC 221
8 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	INC 224
5 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	GORDON
24 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	SINGLE CREEK

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Santiam Wagon Road: 8 occurrences, 7 prospects, 6 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Gold, Silver, Silver, Silver, Zinc. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
44 Mines	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Producer	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
44 Mines	Silver, Zinc, Lead, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
Accident	Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Galena	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Barium-Barite	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Galena Mine	Gold, Barium-Barite, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Prospect
Highland Chief	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Paymaster Claim	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Paymaster Claim	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Prospect
Red Ribbon	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead	Occurrence	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Galena
Riverside Group	Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper	Past Producer	1912

Every working recorded in Linn 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000795 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Linn County	All 73 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.