Cornucopia Jailhouse

Built in 1885 (vernacular architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“The Cornucopia Jailhouse is a former jailhouse located on Second Street in the ghost town of Cornucopia, Oregon. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 24, 2014.”
Wikipedia article Cornucopia Jailhouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Baker County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1885, vernacular architecture.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2nd St., Cornucopia, 97834
When was it listed? November 2014
Category. building
Census division. Halfway
When was it built? 1885
Architectural style. vernacular architecture
National Register reference number. 14000959 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

81 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 81 fires within 5 miles of Cornucopia Jailhouse between 1992 and 2019, burning about 287 acres in total. 63 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
Natural	63
Recreation and ceremony	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Arson/incendiarism	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 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	HOLBROOK
30 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	not named
29 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	HEAD OF EAST PINE
29 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	210 acres	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	not named
27 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	MUD LAKE
24 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	OUTER SKIRT
23 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	SIMMONS
21 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	INCIDENT 1052

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 60 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 60 workings within 5 miles of Cornucopia Jailhouse: 21 past producers, 16 prospects, 14 occurrences, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead. 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
Cliff Creek	Silver, Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Cornucopia Gold Mines	Gold, Tellurium, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Last Chance Vein, Cornucopia Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc, Tellurium, Arsenic	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Hessite, Petzite, Sphalerite, Sylvanite, Tetrahedrite
Little Eagle Creek	Gold, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Little Eagle Creek Prospects	Copper, Silver, Gold	Prospect
Paddy Creek	Mercury, Gold	Occurrence	Cinnabar, Gold
Paddy Creek Prospect	Gold, Mercury	Prospect
Queen of the West Mine	Gold, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver	Past Producer	Vein
Red Boy and Mt. Chief	Gold, Lead, Copper, Silver	Prospect	1885
Red Mountain Prospect	Copper, Gold	Occurrence	Vein

Every working recorded in Baker 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 14000959 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Baker County	All 14 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.