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Photograph of Wolf Creek Inn
Photograph by Nwcamera1, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Wolf Creek Tavern

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“Wolf Creek Inn State Heritage Site is a state park in the U.S. state of Oregon, administered by the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.”

Wikipedia article Wolf Creek Inn State Heritage Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 69 National Register listings published here for Josephine County · listed in 1972 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. West side, Old Pacific Highway, OR 99, About .5 mi N of US 5, Wolf Creek, 97497
  • When was it listed? September 1972
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Northwest Josephine
  • National Register reference number. 72001081 - 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

206 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 206 fires within 5 miles of Wolf Creek Tavern between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,431 acres in total. 34 started naturally. 7 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 use59
Natural34
Missing data/not specified/undetermined30
Debris and open burning19
Recreation and ceremony15
Smoking11
Misuse of fire by a minor9
Other causes8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Arson/incendiarism7
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Firearms and explosives use1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2001Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationTUNNEL ROAD
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreMedford DistrictTUNNEL ROAD
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersBROWN STREET
5 September 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreGrants Pass UnitRAILROAD AVE 851
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use5.0 acresGrants Pass UnitI-5 MP 78
5 September 2002Equipment and vehicle use17 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationSTAGECOACH PASS # 1
5 September 2000Other causesunder an acreGrants Pass UnitNORTH FRONTAGE RD.
3 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMedford DistrictI 5 MP 75

Every fire recorded in Josephine County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 67 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 67 workings within 5 miles of Wolf Creek Tavern: 25 past producers, 13 occurrences, 12 producers, 11 prospects. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Horseshoe LodeGold, Silver, Copper, Manganese, TelluriumProducerChalcopyrite, Pyrite, Rhodochrosite
Horseshoe LodeGold, Tellurium, Silver, Manganese, CopperPast Producer
Macabee MineGold, Copper, SilverProducerChalcopyrite, Pyrite
Grave Creek PlacerGold, SilverProducerPlacer
Grave Creek PlacerGold, SilverPast Producer
Ninemile Quarry & PlantStonePast Producer
Ninemile Quarry & PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Porphyry GroupGold, SilverProspect
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

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.

Listed places nearby

3 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Golden Historic District3.1 miles2002
Grave Creek Bridge4.2 miles1979
Hugo Community Baptist Church7.6 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 72001081 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Josephine CountyAll 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.