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One of 28 National Register listings published here for Klamath County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Valley Hospital
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 405 Pine St., Klamath Falls, 97601
- When was it listed? September 1988
- Category. building
- Census division. Klamath Falls
- National Register reference number. 88001524 - 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
78 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 78 fires within 5 miles of Valley Hospital between 1992 and 2020, burning about 909 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 15 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 | 17 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 15 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Natural | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | CART 507 |
| 9 September 1993 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Klamath Unit | LINDLEY |
| 8 September 1993 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Klamath Unit | LIMPER |
| 7 September 2006 | Fireworks | under an acre | Klamath Unit | 1 MILE |
| 5 September 2010 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Klamath Unit | EARLY BIRD |
| 29 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | 71 acres | Klamath Unit | HOGBACK |
| 27 September 1997 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Klamath Unit | M&M |
| 24 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Klamath Unit | BEAGLE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 51 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 51 workings within 5 miles of Valley Hospital: 29 past producers, 17 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Geothermal. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bly Mountain Perlite Deposit | Perlite | Unknown | ||
| Green Springs Hwy | Diatomite | Past Producer | ||
| Klamath Falls Diatomite | Diatomite | Occurrence | ||
| Oregon Technical Institute | Mercury | Occurrence | Cinnabar | |
| Oregon Technical Institute | Mercury | Prospect | ||
| Brickyard | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Klamath Falls Brickyard | Clay | Producer | ||
| Wocus Site | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Wocus Site | Clay | Producer | ||
| Hardboard Spring | Geothermal | Producer |
Storms near this property
14 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Klamath Falls, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 4 hail, 3 flood, 3 wildfire, 3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Klamath Falls | $10,000 | A member of the public reported that part of a barn roof was blown away, a firmly anchored car canopy was toppled, and a boat was damaged by strong gusts associated with a thunderstorm. No warning was issued for this storm. |
| August 2020 | Hail | Klamath Falls | - | A member of the public sent a picture of quarter sized hail. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Klamath Falls | - | An NWS employee driving through the area reported .5 to .75 inch hail covering the ground. |
| August 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Klamath Falls | - | Klamath County dispatch reported multiple trees down on power lines and roads from Klamath Falls east and north to Chiloquin. |
| June 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Klamath Falls | - | No wind report of this magnitude was received, but one report came close. |
| August 1999 | Wildfire | Klamath Falls | - | See below. |
| July 1999 | Wildfire | Klamath Falls | - | See below. |
| July 1999 | Wildfire | Klamath Falls | - | The Klamath Falls Herald and News reported 3 more lightning ignited fires. See below. |
| August 1999 | Flood | Klamath Falls | - | See below. |
| August 1999 | Flood | Klamath Falls | - | See below. |
| May 1995 | Hail | Klamath Falls | - | A small tornado, one and one-half inch hail, and heavy rain accompanied strong thunderstorms in the Klamath Falls area. The tornado ripped the roof off of a Klamath Falls School District bus barn. No one was injured. Hail from the same storm did some minor crop damage to local sugar beet fields. |
| May 1998 | Flash Flood | Klamath Falls | - | no account filed |
| May 1998 | Hail | Klamath Falls | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Flood | Klamath Falls | - | no account filed |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Judge Henry L. Benson House | under 500 feet | 1981 |
 | Klamath Falls City Library, Old | 0.2 miles | 1989 |
 | Klamath Falls City Hall | 0.2 miles | 1989 |
 | Warren Mills House | 0.2 miles | 1993 |
 | Bisbee Hotel | 0.2 miles | 2006 |
| Oregon Bank Building | 0.3 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88001524 in Record Group 79. |
| Klamath County | All 28 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.