Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.
From the record
“The Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge is a historic gold dredge located in Sumpter, in the U.S. state of Oregon. Three gold dredges were put into service in the Sumpter Valley district between 1912 and 1934.”
Wikipedia article Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Baker County · listed in 1971 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number.71000676- 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
116 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 116 fires within 5 miles of SUMPTER VALLEY GOLD DREDGE (dredge)
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 65 started naturally. 4 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
65
Recreation and ceremony
17
Debris and open burning
11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10
Arson/incendiarism
4
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Smoking
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
2
Fireworks
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
81 workings within 5 miles of SUMPTER VALLEY GOLD DREDGE (dredge): 27 prospects, 22 past producers, 17 occurrences, 8 producers.
8 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese. 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
Sumpter, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 heavy rain.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
A severe thunderstorm cell dropped 1.5 inch diameter hail that covered the highway in Sumpter and damaged vehicles in the town of Haines. The storm also produced winds that knocked a tree down onto a vehicle, injuring two people inside.
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
1 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.
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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