Oregon Trail, Barlow Road Segment

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Clackamas County · listed in 1974 · category: Site.

Sources: 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. NW of Wemme, Wemme, 97049
When was it listed? November 1974
Category. site
Census division. Mount Hood
National Register reference number. 74001679 - 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Oregon Trail, Barlow Road Segment between 1992 and 2020, burning about 9 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 6 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
Recreation and ceremony	18
Debris and open burning	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Natural	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	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 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Molalla Unit	TRUCKER BARREL
8 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	HIDE AND SEEK TREE
8 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	CEDAR
5 September 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BRIGHTWOOD LOOP
27 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	MOUNTAIN LANE FIELD
26 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Molalla Unit	BIRDIE LANE FIRE
23 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	WILDCAT
22 September 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	POWRLINE14

Every fire recorded in Clackamas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Oregon Trail, Barlow Road Segment: 32 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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
Cheeney Creek Prospects	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Producer	Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Cheeney Creek Prospects	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead	Past Producer
Arrah Wanna Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Arrah Wanna Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Brightwood Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Carver Pit and Plant #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Carver Pit and Plant #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hood-Land Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hood-Land Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Norman Strabein	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clackamas 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

4 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
St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church	1.6 miles	1979
Zigzag Ranger Station	2.6 miles	1986
Rock Corral on the Barlow Road	4.1 miles	1974
Wilbur and Evelyn Reid's Alderbrook Lodge	4.2 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001679 in Record Group 79.
Clackamas County	All 93 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.