Photograph by United States Forest Service (Jan Alexander), Public domain. Via
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Unity Ranger Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
From the record
“The Unity Ranger Station is a United States Forest Service compound consisting of five buildings and a lookout tower in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest of northeastern Oregon. It was previously the administrative headquarters for the Unity Ranger District.”
Wikipedia article Unity Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Baker County · listed in 1986 · category: District.
Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
Census division. Hereford
Architectural style. rustic architecture
Architect. United States Forest Service
National Register reference number.86000823- 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
33 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Unity Ranger Station
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 311 acres in total. 19 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
19
Equipment and vehicle use
5
Debris and open burning
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Smoking
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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
22 workings within 5 miles of Unity Ranger Station: 11 past producers, 6 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Diatomite. 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
Unity, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1995 and 2018: 3 flash flood, 1 hail, 1 wildfire.
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.
Thunderstorms with heavy rainfall moved across parts of Southwest Baker County causing flash flooding and debris flow on burn scars southwest of Unity along the South Fork of the Burnt River, and along Highway 245 from northeast of Unity to around 5 miles south of the intersection with Highway 7. Weather observations from around the area reported up to one and a half inches of rain over a period of about one hour.
The Monument Rock Fire was started by lightning on July 12th and spread to cover over 24,000 acres before being contained on August 9th. Table Rock Lookout was evacuated and all recreational roads into the area were closed. Cost of fighting the fire totaled $7.5 million when it was combined with the Malheur Complex Fire on August 9th. The Monument-Malheur Complex Fire was contained on August 19th. The combined fire covered over 44,000 acres. The total cost of fighting the combined fire was $30.7 million. No structures were lost.
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.
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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