Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
From the record
“The Siletz Agency Site, also known as Government Hill, is a historic site and park located in Siletz, Oregon, United States. Army forcibly relocated over 2,600 people of several different tribes to the Siletz Reservation.”
Wikipedia article Siletz Agency Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 19 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1976 · category: District.
National Register reference number.76001582- 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 Siletz Agency Site
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 66 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 was 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
Debris and open burning
19
Recreation and ceremony
9
Smoking
7
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Fireworks
3
Natural
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Arson/incendiarism
1
Firearms and explosives use
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
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
6 workings within 5 miles of Siletz Agency Site: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Gold. 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
Siletz, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 9 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.
Heavy rain caused the Siletz River near Siletz to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Siletz River crested at 23.5 feet on January 19th at 2 pm PST, 7.5 feet above flood stage.
The Siletz River near Siletz (SILO3) rose above flood stage of 16 feet at 0830PST of the 11th, crested at 18.1 feet at 1345PST on the 11th, then fell below flood stage at 2200PST on the 12th.
Heavy rain resulted in flooding of the Siletz River at Siletz. The Siletz River reached flood stage at 115 AM on November 25th, and crested at 16.5 feet at 345 AM on November 25th. The river dropped below flood stage at 715 AM on November 25.
The Siletz River at Siletz reached flood stage of 20 feet at 1045 PM PST on December 20th. The river crested at 20.33 feet at 1230 AM PST on December 21st, before dropping below flood stage an hour later.
Heavy rain caused the Siletz River near Siletz to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Siletz River crested at 16.8 feet on January 19th at 6 pm PST, 0.8 feet above flood stage.
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.
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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