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Photograph of Butte Falls Ranger Station
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Butte Falls Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Butte Falls Ranger Station, located in Rogue River - Siskiyou National Forest in Butte Falls, Oregon, was built in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. It was designed by architects of the United States Forest Service in rustic style.”

Wikipedia article Butte Falls Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 154 National Register listings published here for Jackson 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 8 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Rogue River National Forest, Butte Falls, 97522
  • When was it listed? April 1986
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
  • Census division. Butte Falls-Prospect
  • Architectural style. Forest Service rustic, rustic architecture
  • National Register reference number. 86000824 - 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

177 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 177 fires within 5 miles of Butte Falls Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,440 acres in total. 63 started naturally. 9 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
Natural63
Recreation and ceremony29
Debris and open burning22
Equipment and vehicle use17
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Smoking9
Arson/incendiarism9
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Other causes2
Firearms and explosives use1
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreMedford DistrictBOWEN CREEK
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreMedford DistrictGINGER 3
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreMedford DistrictGINGER 2
5 September 2013Naturalunder an acreMedford DistrictLICK CREEK
4 September 1992Naturalunder an acreMedford UnitPOWERS RANCH
30 September 1999Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreMedford UnitOBENCHAIN ROAD
3 September 1995Arson/incendiarismunder an acreMedford UnitFISH LAKE RD MM19
3 September 1992Naturalunder an acreMedford UnitOBENCHAIN MTN

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Butte Falls Ranger Station: 2 occurrences, 1 prospect, 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Manganese, Copper, Manganese, Gold, Silver, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Call of the WildCopper, Manganese, Gold, SilverOccurrenceCopper, Cuprite, Malachite
Call of the WildCopper, Gold, Manganese, SilverProspect
Grand Cove ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butte Falls, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2010: 1 flash flood, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2004Flash FloodButte Falls-A spotter at Hwy 140 10 SE Butte Falls reported that Butte Creek had water running over the road and the creek rising rapidly.
August 2010HailButte Falls-no account filed

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

1 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Jacksonville-to-Fort Klamath Military Wagon Road6.6 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86000824 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson CountyAll 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.
  • 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.