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One of 12 National Register listings published here for Curry County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Port Orford City Jail
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 7th Street near Jefferson Street, No Street Number, Port Orford, 97465
- When was it listed? April 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. Port Orford
- National Register reference number. 100011755 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
55 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Port Orford City Jail between 1992 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Natural | 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 1992 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Gold Beach Unit | PARADISE POINT |
| 5 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | HUBBARD CREEK |
| 24 September 2006 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Gold Beach Unit | HUMBUG |
| 21 September 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Gold Beach Unit | ROCKY POINT |
| 19 September 1992 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Gold Beach Unit | RETZ CREEK |
| 13 September 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Gold Beach Unit | BATTLE ROCK |
| 13 September 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Gold Beach Unit | FIR ROAD |
| 1 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.5 acres | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | 280 ROAD / HUMBUG |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 22 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Port Orford City Jail: 15 past producers, 5 producers, 2 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Stone, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Blanco | Osmium, Platinum, Gold, Chromium | Past Producer | Chromite, Gold, Platinum | |
| Cape Blanco Mine | Gold, Platinum, Osmium | Past Producer | ||
| Hubbard Creek Beach Placer | Gold, Platinum, Chromium | Occurrence | Beach Placer | |
| Hubbard Creek Beach Placer | Gold, PGE, Chromium | Occurrence | ||
| Meek's Placer | Gold, Platinum, Chromium, Osmium, Iridium | Past Producer | Beach Placer | |
| Meeks Mine | Gold, Osmium, Iridium | Past Producer | ||
| Anderson Site | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Wahl Site | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Anderson Site | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Griffith Pit | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Orford, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2010: 1 heavy rain, 1 storm surge/tide, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1998 | Storm Surge/Tide | Port Orford | $300,000 | no account filed |
| October 2010 | Tornado (EF0) | Port Orford | - | A blogger took a picture of a waterspout off of Humbug Mountain and posted it. This event was not reported directly to the NWS. No damage or injuries were reported. |
| January 1998 | Heavy Rain | Port Orford | - | 2.24 inches of rainfall was recorded in 8 hours. |
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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peter John Lindberg House | 0.2 miles | 2015 | |
| Port Orford Coast Guard Station | 1.0 miles | 1998 | |
 | Sixes Hotel | 5.1 miles | 1992 |
 | Patrick Hughes House | 7.1 miles | 1980 |
 | Cape Blanco Lighthouse | 7.3 miles | 1993 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011755 in Record Group 79. |
| Curry County | All 12 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.