Built in 1935 (Forest Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
From the record
“The Zigzag Ranger Station is a Forest Service compound consisting of twenty rustic buildings located in Oregon's Mount Hood National Forest. It was built as the administrative headquarters for the Zigzag Ranger District.”
Wikipedia article Zigzag Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 93 National Register listings published here for Clackamas County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1935, Forest Service rustic.
Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
Census division. Mount Hood
When was it built? 1935
Architectural style. Forest Service rustic
National Register reference number.86000842- 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
116 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 116 fires within 5 miles of Zigzag Ranger Station
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. 7 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
Recreation and ceremony
47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
19
Debris and open burning
18
Natural
7
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Smoking
6
Arson/incendiarism
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Fireworks
2
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
24 workings within 5 miles of Zigzag Ranger Station: 18 past producers, 6 producers.
6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold. 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
Zigzag, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2014: 1 hail, 1 flash flood.
The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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.
Heavy rain resulted in the Sandy River to rapidly rise. A foot bridge near Ramona Falls broke loose sending a man into the turbulent waters. The man drowned in the river.
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
4 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.
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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