Mill-Pine Neighborhood Historic District

Built in 1872. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“The Mill-Pine Neighborhood Historic District is a residential historic district located in Roseburg, Oregon, United States. Beginning in 1878, this neighborhood of modest homes developed to house employees of the adjacent railroad, and the service and retail workers who served them.”
Wikipedia article Mill-Pine Neighborhood Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1985 · category: District · built in 1872.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Short St., Mosher Ave., Stephens St. and Rice Ave., Roseburg, 97470
When was it listed? June 1985
Category. district
Census division. Roseburg
When was it built? 1872
National Register reference number. 85001348 - 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 Mill-Pine Neighborhood Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 793 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Debris and open burning	16
Arson/incendiarism	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Other causes	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Natural	5
Smoking	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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	2.9 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	SUMMIT DRIVE
9 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Roseburg District	ORCHARD LANE
9 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Douglas Forest Protective Association	GEM DRIVE
6 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	TOPAZ DRIVE
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	DAWSON RD
3 September 2011	Other causes	under an acre	Central Unit	BREEZY LN.
3 September 2001	Smoking	3.9 acres	Douglas Forest Protective Association	NAVAJO DRIVE
29 September 2000	Other causes	1.0 acres	Douglas Forest Protective Association	KESTER RIDGE

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 80 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 80 workings within 5 miles of Mill-Pine Neighborhood Historic District: 46 past producers, 34 producers. 34 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Boggs Site	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Christensen Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Compton Quarry & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Cunningham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Cunningham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Dan Parker Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Green Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Keller Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Kester Road Upper Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Looking Glass Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

4 since 2009

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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Roseburg	$10,000	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.
March 2025	Flood	Roseburg	-	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.
February 2019	Flood	Roseburg	-	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.
February 2011	Flood	Roseburg	-	Deer Creek exceeded the flood stage of 10.0 feet at 15/1500 PST, crested at 10.02 feet at 15/1530 PST, the fell below flood stage by 15/1600 PST.

Every storm 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

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
Howell-Kohlhagen House	0.3 miles	1988
U.S. Post Office	0.3 miles	1979
First Presbyterian Church of Roseburg	0.3 miles	1988
Dr. Robert R. and Mary Helen Mooers House	0.4 miles	2018
Methodist Episcopal Church South	0.4 miles	1985
Moses Parrott House	0.4 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001348 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.
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.