Jacksonville Historic District

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“The Jacksonville Historic District encompasses the historic core of the 19th-century mining town of Jacksonville, Oregon. The city was a major mining, civic, and commercial center from 1852 to 1884, and declined thereafter, leaving a little-altered assemblage of architecture from that period.”
Wikipedia article Jacksonville Historic District (Jacksonville, Oregon), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 154 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1966 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. Jacksonville city limits, Jacksonville, 97530
When was it listed? November 1966
Category. district
Census division. Medford
National Register reference number. 66000950 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

214 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 214 fires within 5 miles of Jacksonville Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 281 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 21 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
Natural	41
Debris and open burning	37
Equipment and vehicle use	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Arson/incendiarism	21
Smoking	16
Recreation and ceremony	13
Fireworks	7
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Other causes	5
Firearms and explosives use	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 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	SOUTH STAGE 4760
9 September 2016	Smoking	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	HWY 238 (3788)
8 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Medford Unit	RESERVOIR PEAK FIRE
6 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	4.5 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	STERLING CREEK PP#172505
6 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Medford Unit	LOGTOWN
6 September 1996	Other causes	under an acre	Medford Unit	LIVINGSTON RD
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	FOREST CREEK
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	KANE CREEK

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 153 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 153 workings within 5 miles of Jacksonville Historic District: 86 past producers, 32 producers, 17 occurrences, 15 prospects. 32 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Granite Quarry	Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Opp	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Tellurium	Producer	Vein
Opp Mine	Gold, Tellurium, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Town Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper	Producer	Gold, Pyrite
Jacksonville Brick & Tile	Clay	Past Producer	Clay
Jacksonville Brick & Tile Co.	Clay	Past Producer
Beeman Limestone	Limestone, General	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Beeman Limestone	Limestone, General	Prospect
Bell and Mankins Mine	Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Vein
Ensele Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jacksonville, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2006: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2006	Flash Flood	Jacksonville	-	Flooding was reported above Highway 238 near Jacksonville.
August 1999	Thunderstorm Wind	Jacksonville	-	Spotter reported numerous trees blown over.

Every storm 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

6 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
John Orth House	0.1 miles	1972
William Bybee House	0.6 miles	1977
Rich Gulch Diggings	0.8 miles	2000
Frank E. Bybee House	1.5 miles	1981
Carpenter, A.S.V., and Helen Bundy House	2.0 miles	2005
Walter Bowne House	2.2 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000950 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.
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.