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Photograph of Jacksonville-to-Fort Klamath Military Wagon Road
Photograph by L. Deich, Bureau of Land Management, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Jacksonville-to-Fort Klamath Military Wagon Road

Built in 1863. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Jacksonville-to-Fort Klamath Military Wagon Road, from Jacksonville, Oregon, to Fort Klamath in Fort Klamath, Oregon, was built in 1863 by the United States Department of the Army. Segments of the road were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”

Wikipedia article Jacksonville-to-Fort Klamath Military Wagon Road, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 154 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1979 · category: Site · built in 1863.

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

The listing

  • Address. S of Butte Falls, Butte Falls, 97522
  • When was it listed? May 1979
  • Category. site
  • Census division. Butte Falls-Prospect
  • When was it built? 1863
  • National Register reference number. 79002068 - 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

98 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 98 fires within 5 miles of Jacksonville-to-Fort Klamath Military Wagon Road between 1992 and 2020, burning about 171 acres in total. 48 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
Natural48
Recreation and ceremony17
Equipment and vehicle use9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Debris and open burning7
Smoking4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
9 September 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestBLUE
9 September 2005Naturalunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestTWO BIT
7 September 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreMedford UnitSAMS CREEK
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreMedford DistrictBOWEN CREEK
3 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMedford UnitFISH LAKE RD MM19
3 September 1992Naturalunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National Forestnot named
29 September 1994Naturalunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National Forestnot named
28 September 2004Smoking4.2 acresMedford UnitWASSON CANYON

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Jacksonville-to-Fort Klamath Military Wagon Road: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Buck Rock PitStonePast Producer
Buck Rock PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Star F RanchManganeseProspect
Star F. RanchManganeseOccurrence
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butte Falls, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2010: 1 flash flood, 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2004Flash FloodButte Falls-A spotter at Hwy 140 10 SE Butte Falls reported that Butte Creek had water running over the road and the creek rising rapidly.
August 2010HailButte Falls-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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

2 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
Willow Prairie Cabin6.3 miles2000
Butte Falls Ranger Station6.6 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79002068 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson CountyAll 154 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.
  • 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.