BlockFrom the record
One of 69 National Register listings published here for Josephine County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Store Gulch Guard Station No. 1020
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Illinois Valley Rd., Siskiyou National Forest, Cave Junction, 97538
- When was it listed? April 1986
- Category. building
- Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
- Census division. Wilderville
- National Register reference number. 86000838 - 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 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Store Gulch Guard Station No. 1020 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 44 acres in total. 23 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 23 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Fireworks | 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 1994 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest | not named |
| 6 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest | |
| 28 September 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest | BIG GULP |
| 2 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest | DEER CREEK |
| 2 September 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest | not named |
| 16 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest | KERBY FLAT |
| 15 September 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest | WHESTON BUTTE |
| 12 September 1997 | Natural | 4.0 acres | Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest | RIVER ROAD |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 252 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 252 workings within 5 miles of Store Gulch Guard Station No. 1020: 84 past producers, 81 occurrences, 52 prospects, 25 producers. 25 still produce. What was taken out: Chromium, Gold, Copper, Gold, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bluff Prospect | Iron, Copper, Nickel, Cobalt | Occurrence | Metamorphic | |
| Bluff Prospect | Iron, Nickel, Copper, Cobalt | Occurrence | ||
| Calumet | Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead | Producer | Pyrite, Pyrrhotite | |
| Calumet Mine | Gold, Copper, Chromium | Past Producer | ||
| Crown | Chromium, Copper | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Chromite, Malachite | |
| Deep Gorge Chromite | Chromium, Platinum, Palladium, Rhodium, Iridium, Ruthenium | Past Producer | 1915 | |
| Deep Gorge Chromite | Chromium, Palladium, Platinum, Rhodium | Past Producer | ||
| Eureka Mine | Gold, Silver, Tellurium | Producer | Pyrite | |
| Eureka Mine | Gold, Tellurium, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Fall Creek Copper | Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc, Nickel | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Malachite, Pyrrhotite |
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 86000838 in Record Group 79. |
| Josephine County | All 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.