Union Creek Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Union Creek Historic District near the upper Rogue River in Union Creek, Oregon, is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places for rustic structures built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930s.”
Wikipedia article Union Creek Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 154 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1980 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. OR 62, Prospect, 97536
When was it listed? October 1980
Category. district
Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings TR (AD); Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
Census division. Butte Falls-Prospect
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 80003328 - 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 Union Creek Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 477 acres in total. 92 started naturally. None 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
Natural	92
Recreation and ceremony	17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle 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 2017	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	UNION
6 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	BRUTUS
30 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
3 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
3 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
29 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

6 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Prospect, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2010 and 2019: 3 hail, 3 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2019	Hail	Prospect	-	Hail 1.0 inch in diameter was reported at the ODOT station 1 N Prospect. Trees were down as well. A Pacificorp employee who works at 1111 Mill Creek Drive in Prospect (about 1 mile southwest of downtown Prospect) reported 1 inch hail between 1515 PDT and 1520 PDT. The hail caused thousands of dollars of damage to 9 work vehicles and 4 personal vehicles.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Prospect	-	Multiple trees down along with numerous limbs. Times estimated from radar returns.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Prospect	-	Multiple trees down along with numerous limbs. Time estimated from radar returns.
May 2017	Hail	Prospect	-	Hail measured from residual piles along the road roughly 20 hours after the event. Time estimated from radar returns.
June 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Prospect	-	KDRV-TV reported a large tree was blown down, closing Highway 62 until it was cleared.
July 2010	Hail	Prospect	-	Widespread 1 inch hail and heavy rain reported in the Prospect area.

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Mt. Stella Lookout	2.4 miles	2000
	Whaleback Snow-Survey Cabin	6.8 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003328 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.
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.