Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
From the record
“The Gold Beach Ranger Station was built at Gold Beach, Oregon in Siskiyou National Forest in 1936 by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). The ranger station comprises several structures that typify the U.S.”
Wikipedia article Gold Beach Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 12 National Register listings published here for Curry County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.
Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
Census division. Gold Beach
National Register reference number.86000818- 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
56 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Gold Beach Ranger Station
between 1992 and 2019, burning about 74 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning
17
Equipment and vehicle use
13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Recreation and ceremony
7
Fireworks
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Smoking
2
Natural
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Arson/incendiarism
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
52 workings within 5 miles of Gold Beach Ranger Station: 38 past producers, 8 occurrences, 4 producers, 2 prospects.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese. 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
Gold Beach, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 2 flood, 1 waterspout, 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.
The Curry Coastal Pilot reported over 2 million dollars in infrastructure damage in Brookings and another 2 million in Curry County due to recent heavy rains. Sinkholes and overflowing sewage facilities were also reported.
The Curry Coastal Pilot reported widespread flooding in Brookings, Gold Beach, Pistol River, Harbor, and the Winchuck River. River's Edge RV park near the mouth of the Chetco had to be evacuated. The city of Brookings had flooded streets, stores and houses. Rainfall totals between 18/0800 PST and 21/0800 PST included 11.08 inches 3NE Harbor, 9.40 inches at Red Mound RAWS, 8.59 inches 1S Gold Beach, 8.56 inches 5E Port Orford, 6.88 inches at Agness RAWS, and 6.75 inches at Brookings Airport.
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.
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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