Fort Klamath Site

Built in 1863. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“Fort Klamath was a military outpost near the western end of the Oregon Trail, between Crater Lake National Park and Upper Klamath Lake in Klamath County, Oregon, United States. The Fort Klamath Site, about a mile southeast of the present community of Fort Klamath, Oregon, is listed on the U.S.”
Wikipedia article Fort Klamath, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Klamath County · listed in 1971 · category: Site · built in 1863.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. SE of Fort Klamath, Fort Klamath, 97626
When was it listed? October 1971
Category. site
Census division. Chiloquin
When was it built? 1863
National Register reference number. 71000680 - 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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of Fort Klamath Site between 1992 and 2020, burning about 86 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 5 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	21
Recreation and ceremony	12
Arson/incendiarism	5
Debris and open burning	5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Other causes	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
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Fremont-Winema National Forest	F
13 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Fremont-Winema National Forest	LAST
1 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fremont-Winema National Forest	MONUMENT
8 August 2017	Natural	10 acres	Fremont-Winema National Forest	KIMBALL
30 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Fremont-Winema National Forest	SPRING
29 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Fremont-Winema National Forest	LAST CALL
29 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Klamath Unit	CABIN
22 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	GREMLIN

Every fire recorded in Klamath County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Fort Klamath Site: 3 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Fort Klamath	Stone	Past Producer
Fort Klamath Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Klamath 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 71000680 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Klamath County	All 28 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.