Lick Creek Guard Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Lick Creek Guard Station is a Forest Service Guard Station located in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest near Enterprise, Oregon. The station was constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.”
Wikipedia article Lick Creek Guard Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Wallowa 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

Address. Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Enterprise, 97846
When was it listed? April 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
Census division. Imnaha
Architectural style. Forest Service rustic
National Register reference number. 86000844 - 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

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Lick Creek Guard Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 191 acres in total. 51 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	51
Recreation and ceremony	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Smoking	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
4 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	TWO BITS
4 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	HUNTER
29 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	MACHINE
15 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	LICK CREEK TRAIL
11 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	not named
1 September 2010	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	GUMBOOT #2
9 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	WING RIDGE
8 August 1996	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	3940

Every fire recorded in Wallowa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Lick Creek Guard Station: 7 occurrences, 6 prospects, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Gold, Copper, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Huffman Prospect	Copper, Silver	Occurrence	1870
Wallowa County Mining & Development Co.	Gold, Copper, Silver	Past Producer	Vein
Huffman Prospect	Copper, Silver	Prospect
Williams Mine	Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Copper Canyon	Gold	Occurrence
Copper Canyon Prospect	Gold	Prospect
Mountain Top	Gold	Occurrence
Mountain Top Prospect	Gold	Prospect
North Slope	Gold	Occurrence
North Slope Prospect	Gold	Prospect

Every working recorded in Wallowa County

Storms near this property

12 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Enterprise, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2000 and 2009: 4 hail, 3 lightning, 2 funnel cloud, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2001	Lightning	Enterprise	$40,000	Lightning struck a 75 foot radio antenna and short-circuited many electronic devices such as faxes, computers and phones, which were located next to the tower. One business owner estimated total losses of over 25 thousand dollars. Other lightning strikes cut power to 800 customers in the nearby towns of Wallowa Lake and Joseph.
August 2009	Hail	Enterprise	-	Spotter reported the ground was white with hail and small branches were knocked down.
June 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Enterprise	-	Large tree blocking the road to Freezeout Trail.
August 2006	Tornado (F0)	Enterprise	-	Brief landspout tornado observed moving north by several golfers at Alpine Meadows Golf Course northwest of Enterprise. Tornado hit trees and broke off branches up to 2 inches in diameter.
August 2001	Lightning	Enterprise	-	Lightning struck a tree southeast of Enterprise, knocking it into a power line. Power was then lost for around 5 hours to sections of Enterprise, Joseph, and Wallowa Lake.
May 2004	Funnel Cloud	Enterprise	-	no account filed
September 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Enterprise	-	no account filed
September 2004	Hail	Enterprise	-	no account filed
May 2003	Funnel Cloud	Enterprise	-	no account filed
July 2002	Hail	Enterprise	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Enterprise	-	no account filed
August 2000	Lightning	Enterprise	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wallowa 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000844 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wallowa County	All 22 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.