Fish Lake Guard Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“Fish Lake Guard Station, also known as the Fish Lake Remount Station or Fish Lake Remount Depot, is a historic United States Forest Service complex in the Willamette National Forest of Linn County, Oregon. Located near McKenzie Bridge, it served as a fire-dispatch station, administrative site, and base for horses and mules used in remote areas of the central Cascade Range.”
Wikipedia article Fish Lake Remount Depot, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Linn County · listed in 2014 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 57600 McKenzie Hwy., McKenzie Bridge
When was it listed? June 2014
Category. district
Census division. East Linn
National Register reference number. 14000381 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

114 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 114 fires within 5 miles of Fish Lake Guard Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 236 acres in total. 60 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	60
Recreation and ceremony	33
Smoking	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Fireworks	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 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	LAZY
8 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	not named
7 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	INCIDENT 266
7 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	INCIDENT 307
7 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	BIG LAKE 213
7 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	not named
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	MR - 442
5 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Willamette National Forest	406 SRZ

Every fire recorded in Linn 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 Fish Lake Guard Station: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Pumice. 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
	Santiam Cinder Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
	Santiam Cinder Pit	Pumice	Producer

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.

Listed places nearby

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Santiam Pass Ski Lodge	7.3 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000381 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.