Built in 1916 (Beaux-Arts). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
From the record
“Post Office is a post office building in Roseburg, Oregon, in the United States. It was constructed in 1916 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 18, 1979.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Roseburg, Oregon), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 47 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1916, Beaux-Arts, by Office of the Supervising Architect, James A. Wetmore.
Architect. Office of the Supervising Architect, James A. Wetmore
National Register reference number.79002059- 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
100 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 100 fires within 5 miles of U.S. Post Office
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 792 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 12 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
18
Debris and open burning
15
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
15
Arson/incendiarism
12
Power generation/transmission/distribution
9
Other causes
7
Smoking
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
7
Natural
5
Recreation and ceremony
4
Fireworks
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
74 workings within 5 miles of U.S. Post Office: 41 past producers, 33 producers.
33 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Roseburg, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2025: 3 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind.
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.
The Roseburg newspaper reported that gusty winds caused damage throughout the area and two trees fell onto the Stewart Park bandshell in Roseburg. Power outages were also reported.
Deer Creek at Roseburg rose above minor flood stage of 10.0 ft. at 16/605 PST, peaked in minor flood stage at 16/1445 PST at 15.91 ft. It then fell below flood stage at 16/2250 PST. At 12.0 feet, Widespread flooding of structures and farmland is occurring.
Deer Creek at Roseburg rose above flood stage (10.0 feet) at 24/1730 PST, crested at 11.78 feet at 24/2030 PST, then fell below flood stage at 25/0430 PST.
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
6 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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