Eagle Point National Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

“Eagle Point National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located just east of Eagle Point, Jackson County, Oregon and about 14 miles (20 km) northeast of Medford. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 43.4 acres (17.6 ha), and as of 2021, had over 25,000 interments.”
Wikipedia article Eagle Point National Cemetery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 154 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 2016 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 2763 Riley Rd., Eagle Point, 97524
When was it listed? September 2016
Category. district
Census division. Eagle Point
National Register reference number. 16000626 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

293 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Eagle Point National Cemetery between 1992 and 2020, burning about 676 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 15 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 use	92
Debris and open burning	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Power generation/transmission/distribution	24
Recreation and ceremony	21
Smoking	19
Misuse of fire by a minor	18
Fireworks	16
Arson/incendiarism	15
Natural	13
Other causes	10
Firearms and explosives use	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 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	EAST ANTELOPE
9 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medford Unit	990 DUTTON
9 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medford Unit	1100 DUTTON
9 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medford Unit	1449 DUTTON
8 September 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Medford Unit	DAHLIA TERRACE
8 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Medford Unit	AGATE ACCESS #3
8 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Medford Unit	AGATE ACCESS #2
8 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Medford Unit	ANTELOPE/140

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 70 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 70 workings within 5 miles of Eagle Point National Cemetery: 39 past producers, 27 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 27 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium. 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
Birdseye Creek Mine	Mercury	Occurrence
Brownsboro Rock Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Ashland	Gold	Producer
Braden	Gold	Producer
Shorty Hope	Gold	Producer
Trust Buster Golden Cross	Gold	Occurrence
Cole - Thrasher	Chromium	Producer
George A Mclean	Chromium	Occurrence
George A. Mclean Property	Chromium	Unknown
Glade Fork	Chromium	Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson 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

5 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Antelope Creek Covered Bridge	1.0 miles	2012
Snowy Butte Flour Mill	1.0 miles	1976
Camp White Station Hospital Administration Building	3.1 miles	2016
Lost Creek Bridge	3.3 miles	1979
H. Chandler and Alice B. Egan House	7.7 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000626 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson County	All 154 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.