Glide Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Glide Ranger Station in Umpqua National Forest near Glide, Oregon, United States, was built in 1938 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. The former ranger station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 for its Rustic architecture.”
Wikipedia article Glide Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Umpqua National Forest, Glide, 97443
When was it listed? April 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
Census division. North Umpqua
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 86000820 - 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Glide Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 599 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Natural	12
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
8 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	500 acres	Central Unit	FRENCH CREEK
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	GLIDE TRANSFER
4 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Roseburg District	NARROWS 2
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	BUCKHORN ROAD # 2
20 September 2007	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Central Unit	NORTH BANK ROAD #2
2 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	WHISTLERS FIRE
17 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	WHISTLERS LANE
1 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	WHISTLERS MERCANTILE

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Glide Ranger Station: 6 past producers, 4 producers, 3 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mercury. 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
Glide Prospect	Mercury	Occurrence	1930
Glide Prospect	Mercury	Occurrence
Mowich Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mowich Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Casebeer Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Casebeer Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hard Times	Chromium	Producer
Livingston Prospect	Chromium	Occurrence
Name Unknown	Chromium	Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000820 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.