Thomas N. Anderson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

One of 154 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Anderson, Thomas N., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 719 Second Ave., Gold Hill, 97525
When was it listed? June 1990
Category. building
Census division. Sams Valley
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 90000845 - 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

388 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 388 fires within 5 miles of Thomas N. Anderson House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 750 acres in total. 66 started naturally. 49 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
Equipment and vehicle use	92
Natural	66
Arson/incendiarism	49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	48
Debris and open burning	35
Recreation and ceremony	25
Smoking	22
Power generation/transmission/distribution	20
Fireworks	11
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Other causes	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	5

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 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medford District	ROGUE RIVER HWY
9 September 2004	Railroad operations and maintenance	12 acres	Medford Unit	RR MP 449.5
8 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Medford District	LEFT FRK FOOTS CREEK
8 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medford District	MAPLE LANE
7 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.6 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	N RIVER ROAD
7 September 1994	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Grants Pass Unit	POWER POLE #R5436
6 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Medford Unit	1567 SARDINE
6 September 1998	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Grants Pass Unit	P P # R-2569

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 206 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 206 workings within 5 miles of Thomas N. Anderson House: 87 past producers, 51 occurrences, 35 prospects, 30 producers. 30 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Blanche Claim	Gold, Copper, Silver	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite, Quartz
Blanche Claim	Gold, Silver, Copper	Prospect
Braden Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Arsenic	Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite
Braden Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Arsenic	Past Producer
Bristol Silica Co. Mine	Silica, Dolomite	Producer
Gold Hill Mine	Gold, Platinum, Molybdenum	Past Producer	1857
Gold Hill Pocket	Gold, Molybdenum, PGE	Past Producer
Gold Ray Granite	Granite, Clay	Past Producer	Clay
Gold Ray Granite	Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Heath	Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Pyrite

Every working recorded in Jackson 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.

Listed places nearby

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Gold Hill High School	0.2 miles	1991
Chavner Family House	0.9 miles	1996
Rock Point Hotel	2.0 miles	1980
White John B., House	2.0 miles	1978
Henry Van Hoevenberg Jr. House	5.9 miles	1981
Charles and Elizabeth Hatch House	5.9 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000845 in Record Group 79.
Jackson County	All 154 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.