Built in 1925. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
From the record
“The Hoodoo Ridge Lookout is a historic fire lookout in the Umatilla National Forest near Troy, Oregon, in the United States. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district on May 26, 2015.”
Wikipedia article Hoodoo Ridge Lookout, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 22 National Register listings published here for Wallowa County · listed in 2015 · category: District · built in 1925, by Aermotor Windmill Company.
National Register reference number. 15000273 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
69 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Hoodoo Ridge Lookout
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 212 acres in total. 57 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
57
Recreation and ceremony
8
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Debris and open burning
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Hoodoo Ridge Lookout: 2 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Troy, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2010 and 2020: 4 flood, 3 hail.
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.
Flood stage is 10.0 feet. The river rose above flood stage on February 7, at 125 am, crested at 11.73 feet on February 7, 1015 am, then fell below flood stage on February 8, at 430am. There was moderate flooding along the Grande Ronde River from Troy downstream to the Washington border. Redmond Grade road as well as Troy road and several other county roads were damaged. Damage is estimated at 129, 591 dollars.
The Grande Ronde river at Troy (flood stage 10.0 feet) crested at 11.5 feet at 1000 on March 16, fell below flood stage and then rose again to 11.7 feet at 0100 on March 19th. River went below flood stage around 1400 on March 20th.
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.
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.
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