Photograph of Oregon Caves Historic District — Photograph by Jess Stryker, http://historic-hotels-lodges.com JessStryker at en.wikipedia, CC BY 2.5. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Oregon Caves Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Built in 1926 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

“Oregon Caves Historic District covers 6 acres (24,000 m2) in the main visitor area of Oregon Caves National Monument in southern Oregon. The district includes four primary buildings plus two other structures.”
Wikipedia article Oregon Caves Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 69 National Register listings published here for Josephine County · listed in 2012 · category: District · built in 1926, National Park Service rustic.

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

The listing

Address. 19000 Caves Hwy., Cave Junction, 97530
When was it listed? January 2012
Category. district
Census division. Cave Junction
When was it built? 1926
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 11001028 - 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Oregon Caves Historic District (Boundary Increase) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 309 acres in total. 55 started naturally. 3 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
Natural	55
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Debris and open burning	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	ABANDONED PEPPER CMP
7 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	PEPPER CAMP
7 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Grants Pass Unit	CAVE CAMP
6 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.8 acres	Medford District	QUINES CREEK
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	ELK HORN
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	LAKE MNT
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	YEAGER
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	BUCK PEAK

Every fire recorded in Josephine County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 86 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 86 workings within 5 miles of Oregon Caves Historic District (Boundary Increase): 33 occurrences, 20 past producers, 19 prospects, 8 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Copper, Limestone, General. 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
Boswell Prospect	Gold, Silver	Producer	Gold
Brown	Copper, Gold, Silver, Nickel	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Pyrrhotite
Brown	Copper, Silver, Nickel, Gold	Prospect
Gem Quartz Mine	Gold, Copper	Producer	Chalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite
Grayback Prospect	Manganese, Iron	Occurrence	Hematite
Grayback Prospect	Manganese, Iron, Gold	Prospect	1958
Iron Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper	Occurrence
Iron Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper	Prospect
June Group	Iron, Manganese	Occurrence	Magnetite
June Group	Iron, Manganese	Prospect

Every working recorded in Josephine 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Oregon Caves Chateau	0.2 miles	1987
Oregon Caves Historic District	0.3 miles	1992
Cedar Guard Station No. 1019	4.3 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11001028 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.