Photograph of Oregon Route 242 — Photograph by Visitor7, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

McKenzie Highway Historic District

Built in 1962. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“Oregon Route 242, known as a portion of the McKenzie Highway, is an Oregon state highway that runs from Belknap Springs, Oregon through McKenzie Pass in the Oregon Cascades, to Sisters, Oregon, in the United States. The McKenzie Highway was added to the National Register of Historic Places in February, 2011.”
Wikipedia article Oregon Route 242, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 123 National Register listings published here for Lane County · listed in 2011 · category: District · built in 1962.

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

The listing

Address. OR 242, Belknap Springs, 97413
When was it listed? February 2011
Category. district
Census division. McKenzie River
When was it built? 1962
National Register reference number. 10001215 - 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

121 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 121 fires within 5 miles of McKenzie Highway Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 36,984 acres in total. 96 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	96
Recreation and ceremony	17
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	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
8 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	not named
5 September 2019	Natural	3.0 acres	Willamette National Forest	MR-421
5 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	DEE WRIGHT
5 September 2011	Natural	under an acre	Deschutes National Forest	728
3 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Deschutes National Forest	0872
26 September 1994	Smoking	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	not named
25 September 2011	Natural	1.0 acres	Deschutes National Forest	833
22 September 1992	Smoking	under an acre	Deschutes National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of McKenzie Highway Historic District: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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
	Scott Lake Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
	Scott Lake Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lane 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 10001215 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lane County	All 123 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.