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Oregon State Soldier's Home Hospital

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

“The Oregon State Soldier's Home Hospital, now known as the Umpqua Arts Center, is a former old soldiers' home in Roseburg, Oregon. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article Oregon State Soldier's Home Hospital, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1624 W. Harvard Ave., Roseburg, 97471
  • When was it listed? March 2012
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Roseburg
  • National Register reference number. 12000079 - 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Oregon State Soldier's Home Hospital between 1992 and 2020, burning about 678 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 12 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 use18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined15
Debris and open burning13
Arson/incendiarism12
Power generation/transmission/distribution8
Smoking7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Other causes5
Natural4
Recreation and ceremony4
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2020Recreation and ceremony2.9 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSUMMIT DRIVE
9 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRoseburg DistrictORCHARD LANE
9 September 2000Debris and open burning1.5 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationGEM DRIVE
7 September 1994Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationLOOKINGGLASS ROAD #2
6 September 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersTOPAZ DRIVE
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersDAWSON RD
3 September 2001Smoking3.9 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationNAVAJO DRIVE
29 September 2000Other causes1.0 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationKESTER RIDGE

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 76 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 76 workings within 5 miles of Oregon State Soldier's Home Hospital: 42 past producers, 34 producers. 34 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Boggs SiteStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Christensen PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Compton Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cunningham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Cunningham QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dan Parker PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Green QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Keller PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Kester Road Upper QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Looking Glass QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

4 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Roseburg, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 3 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 2009Thunderstorm WindRoseburg$10,000The Roseburg newspaper reported that gusty winds caused damage throughout the area and two trees fell onto the Stewart Park bandshell in Roseburg. Power outages were also reported.
March 2025FloodRoseburg-Deer Creek at Roseburg rose above minor flood stage of 10.0 ft. at 16/605 PST, peaked in minor flood stage at 16/1445 PST at 15.91 ft. It then fell below flood stage at 16/2250 PST. At 12.0 feet, Widespread flooding of structures and farmland is occurring.
February 2019FloodRoseburg-Deer Creek at Roseburg rose above flood stage (10.0 feet) at 24/1730 PST, crested at 11.78 feet at 24/2030 PST, then fell below flood stage at 25/0430 PST.
February 2011FloodRoseburg-Deer Creek exceeded the flood stage of 10.0 feet at 15/1500 PST, crested at 10.02 feet at 15/1530 PST, the fell below flood stage by 15/1600 PST.

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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

6 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 12000079 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas CountyAll 47 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.