Zane Grey Cabin

Built in 1926. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

“The Zane Grey Cabin near Rogue River in Oregon is a cabin built in 1926 by Zane Grey (1872-1939), the master author of the American West. Grey used it as a frequent retreat until 1935.”
Wikipedia article Zane Grey Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 69 National Register listings published here for Josephine County · listed in 2016 · category: Site · built in 1926.

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

The listing

Listed as. Grey, Zane, Cabin - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. N. bank of Rogue R., Galice
When was it listed? June 2016
Category. site
When was it built? 1926
National Register reference number. 16000413 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Zane Grey Cabin between 1992 and 2019, burning about 136 acres in total. 44 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	44
Debris and open burning	2

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 2017	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	MISSOURI CREEK
5 September 2019	Natural	9.0 acres	Medford District	BUNKER CREEK
30 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Medford District	LONG GULCH
30 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Grants Pass Unit	LONG GULCH
30 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Medford District	LONG GUL 2
29 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Grants Pass Unit	DUTCH HENRY
29 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Medford District	DUTCH HEN
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Medford District	JENNY BKS

Every fire recorded in Josephine County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Zane Grey Cabin: 7 past producers, 5 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Silver, Copper, Copper, Gold, Silver. 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
Mammoth	Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Vein
Mammoth	Gold, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Marigold	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Malachite
Mammoth Group	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Marigold Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Mule Creek Area Placers	Gold	Producer	Placer
Mule Creek Area Placers	Gold	Prospect
Mule Creek Area Placers	Gold	Prospect
Paradise	Gold	Past Producer	Vein
Paradise Mine	Gold	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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000413 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.