Lost Creek Bridge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Lost Creek Bridge is a covered bridge near the unincorporated community of Lake Creek, in Jackson County in the U.S. state of Oregon. The site is about 15 miles (24 km) east-northeast of Medford.”
Wikipedia article Lost Creek Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. SE of Lakecreek, Lakecreek, 97524
When was it listed? November 1979
Category. structure
Also known as. Oregon Covered Bridges TR
National Register reference number. 79002070 - 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

239 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 239 fires within 5 miles of Lost Creek Bridge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15,210 acres in total. 25 started naturally. 11 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	70
Debris and open burning	28
Natural	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Power generation/transmission/distribution	18
Recreation and ceremony	16
Smoking	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	14
Arson/incendiarism	11
Fireworks	10
Other causes	7
Firearms and explosives use	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 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	EAST ANTELOPE
9 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medford Unit	990 DUTTON
9 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medford Unit	1100 DUTTON
9 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medford Unit	1449 DUTTON
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14,787 acres	Medford Unit	S. OBENCHAIN
8 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medford District	N ROXY
8 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Medford Unit	AGATE ACCESS #3
8 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Medford Unit	AGATE ACCESS #2

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 56 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 56 workings within 5 miles of Lost Creek Bridge: 29 past producers, 23 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 23 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Chromium, 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	Recorded
Brownsboro Clay	Mercury, Clay	Past Producer
Brownsboro Rock Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Stanley and Brown Prospect	Mercury, Clay	Past Producer	1902
Ashland	Gold	Producer
Birdseye Creek Mine	Mercury	Occurrence
Braden	Gold	Producer
Shorty Hope	Gold	Producer
Stanley and Brown Prospect	Mercury	Past Producer
Trust Buster Golden Cross	Gold	Occurrence
Antelope Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Eagle Point National Cemetery	3.3 miles	2016
Antelope Creek Covered Bridge	4.3 miles	2012
Snowy Butte Flour Mill	4.3 miles	1976
Camp White Station Hospital Administration Building	4.7 miles	2016
H. Chandler and Alice B. Egan House	6.1 miles	1997
Hillcrest Orchard Historic District	7.2 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002070 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson County	All 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.