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Photograph of Hugo Community Baptist Church
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Hugo Community Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“Hugo Community Baptist Church is a church and historic church building located in the rural community of Hugo, near Grants Pass, Oregon, United States.”

Wikipedia article Hugo Community Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 69 National Register listings published here for Josephine County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 6501 Hugo Rd., Grants Pass, 97526
  • When was it listed? October 1990
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Northwest Josephine
  • Architectural style. American Craftsman
  • National Register reference number. 90001587 - 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

351 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 351 fires within 5 miles of Hugo Community Baptist Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,669 acres in total. 53 started naturally. 14 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 use75
Natural53
Debris and open burning47
Missing data/not specified/undetermined46
Smoking29
Misuse of fire by a minor21
Recreation and ceremony20
Other causes17
Power generation/transmission/distribution14
Arson/incendiarism14
Fireworks9
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Firearms and explosives use3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1998Arson/incendiarismunder an acreGrants Pass UnitHIGHLAND
7 September 2006Other causesunder an acreGrants Pass UnitPOTTS WAY 764
7 September 1996Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGrants Pass UnitEAST CROW ROAD
7 September 1995Other causesunder an acreGrants Pass UnitSUGARPINE DRIVE
6 September 1998Arson/incendiarism1.5 acresGrants Pass UnitROCK PIT
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHUGO RD 3785
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreMedford DistrictSEXTON MTN LOOKOUT
3 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersQUARTZ CREEK

Every fire recorded in Josephine County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 77 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 77 workings within 5 miles of Hugo Community Baptist Church: 31 past producers, 19 occurrences, 16 prospects, 10 producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Copper QueenGold, Copper, Silver, MercuryPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Gold
Copper Queen MineGold, Mercury, CopperPast Producer
Grave Creek PlacerGold, SilverProducerPlacer
Molybdenum OccurrenceCopper, MolybdenumOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Molybdenite
SulfideSilver, GoldProspect
Sulfide OccurrenceCopper, Gold, SilverOccurrenceUnknown
Unnamed Molybdenum OccurrenceCopper, MolybdenumProspect
White WonderSilica, Silver, Nickel, Gold, CopperProspect
Chancellor QuarryStonePast Producer
Chancellor QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Josephine County

Storms near this property

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grants Pass, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 4 hail, 2 lightning, 2 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2012FloodGrants Pass$4,000,000Spotters reported up to five inches of rain along with localized flooding with this storm. Local roads near OBrien were flooded in four different places.
July 2007LightningGrants Pass$60,000The steeple of the Newman United Methodist Church was struck twice this day, damaging the steeple, windows, organ, and some other stuff. Damage amounted to $60,000.
June 2012HailGrants Pass-A thunderstorm in south Grants Pass dropped hail a little bigger than quarter sized...about 1 inch in diameter. Associated winds were 20 to 25 mph.
April 2005Heavy RainGrants Pass-A spotter 4 NNW of Grants Pass recorded 3.60 inches of rain in one hour ending at 1630 PDT.
April 2005Heavy RainGrants Pass-A spotter 2 N of Grants Pass recorded 2.00 inches of rain in one hour ending at 1630 PDT.
September 1997HailGrants Pass-1-1/4 inch hail.
September 1997HailGrants Pass-3/4-1 inch hail covered the ground.
September 1997HailGrants Pass-3/4 inch hail. Storm knocked out power to about 75 residences.
April 1998LightningGrants Pass-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Josephine 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

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Grave Creek Bridge3.8 miles1979
Reed-Cobb-Bowser House and Barn5.5 miles2017
Golden Historic District7.5 miles2002
Wolf Creek Tavern7.6 miles1972

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 90001587 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Josephine CountyAll 69 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.