Built in 1890. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
From the record
“The Sumpter Valley Railway, or Sumpter Valley Railroad, is a 3 ft narrow gauge heritage railroad located in Baker County, in the U.S. state of Oregon. Built on a right-of-way used by the original railway of the same name, it carries excursion trains on a roughly 5-mile (8.0 km) route between McEwen and Sumpter.”
Wikipedia article Sumpter Valley Railway, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 14 National Register listings published here for Baker County · listed in 1987 · category: District · built in 1890.
National Register reference number.87001065- 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
139 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Sumpter Valley Railway Historic District
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. 100 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
100
Recreation and ceremony
30
Debris and open burning
3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3
Smoking
3
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
18 workings within 5 miles of Sumpter Valley Railway Historic District: 7 past producers, 5 prospects, 4 occurrences, 1 unknown.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Diatomite. 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
Sumpter, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2002 and 2023: 3 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 heavy rain.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
A severe thunderstorm cell dropped 1.5 inch diameter hail that covered the highway in Sumpter and damaged vehicles in the town of Haines. The storm also produced winds that knocked a tree down onto a vehicle, injuring two people inside.
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.
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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