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Photograph of Cedar Guard Station
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cedar Guard Station No. 1019

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Cedar Guard Station No. 1019 in the Rogue River - Siskiyou National Forest, near Cave Junction, Oregon, United States, was built in 1933 by the Civilian Conservation Corps. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 for its architecture.”

Wikipedia article Cedar Guard Station No. 1019, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 69 National Register listings published here for Josephine 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Illinois Valley Rd., Siskiyou National Forest, Cave Junction, 97523
  • When was it listed? April 1986
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
  • Census division. Cave Junction
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • National Register reference number. 86000837 - 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

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Guard Station No. 1019 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 195 acres in total. 46 started naturally. 8 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
Natural46
Missing data/not specified/undetermined16
Recreation and ceremony9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Arson/incendiarism8
Power generation/transmission/distribution7
Debris and open burning6
Firearms and explosives use3
Smoking2
Other causes1

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
9 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestABANDONED PEPPER CMP
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestPEPPER CAMP
7 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGrants Pass UnitCAVE CAMP
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresMedford DistrictQUINES CREEK
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestYEAGER
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestBUCK PEAK
5 September 2003Naturalunder an acreGrants Pass UnitBEAR FIRE
4 September 2003Naturalunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestTANNEN LAKE

Every fire recorded in Josephine County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 103 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 103 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Guard Station No. 1019: 31 occurrences, 29 past producers, 22 prospects, 13 unknowns. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Chromium. 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
Atlas Gold DredgingGold, Iridium, PlatinumProducerStream Placer
Atlas Gold DredgingGold, PGEPast Producer
Boswell ProspectGold, SilverProducerGold
Brown TownPlatinum, Iron, Titanium, MetalOccurrenceStream Placer
Cannon & Connacher ProspectGold, Silver, ManganeseOccurrenceGold, Iron
Gem Quartz MineGold, CopperProducerChalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite
Grayback ProspectManganese, IronOccurrenceHematite
Grayback ProspectManganese, Iron, GoldProspect1958
June GroupIron, ManganeseOccurrenceMagnetite
June GroupIron, ManganeseProspect

Every working recorded in Josephine 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

3 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
Oregon Caves Historic District4.0 miles1992
Oregon Caves Chateau4.1 miles1987
Oregon Caves Historic District (Boundary Increase)4.3 miles2012

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86000837 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Josephine CountyAll 69 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.