Oakland Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Oakland Historic District is a historic district within the city of Oakland, Oregon, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”
Wikipedia article Oakland Historic District (Oakland, Oregon), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1979 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Chestnut, 1st, Cedar, and 8th Sts., Oakland, 97462
When was it listed? March 1979
Category. district
Census division. Sutherlin
National Register reference number. 79002058 - 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

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Oakland Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 397 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 3 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 use	37
Debris and open burning	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Natural	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Other causes	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Fireworks	2
Smoking	2

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 2008	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.0 acres	Douglas Forest Protective Association	HOG CREEK
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	40 acres	Douglas Forest Protective Association	NORTH OLD TOWN RD.
9 September 1996	Power generation/transmission/distribution	81 acres	Douglas Forest Protective Association	GOODRICH HIGHWAY
8 September 2018	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	PLAT B
7 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	FRASER CANYON
7 September 1992	Other causes	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	SPARKS ROAD
6 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	COMSTOCK ROAD
6 September 2008	Other causes	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	I-5 MP 142 #2

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Oakland Historic District: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mercury, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Abeene	Mercury	Occurrence
Abeene	Mercury	Unknown
Cabin Cr. Marsh Cr. # 75 Quarry # 2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Ralf N Hakanson	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ralf N. Hakanson	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Cabin Creek, Marsh Creek #75 Quarry # 2	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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
Sutherlin Bank Building	2.4 miles	1984
English Settlement School	5.0 miles	2007
Stephens Community Historic District	5.5 miles	1984
Baimbridge-Kanipe Farmstead Historic District	5.6 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002058 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas County	All 47 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.