Tiller Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Tiller Ranger Station is a United States Forest Service compound consisting of twenty-seven buildings in Oregon's Umpqua National Forest. Over the years, it has been the administrative headquarters for five ranger districts.”
Wikipedia article Tiller Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1991 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. OR 227, Umpqua NF, Tiller, 97484
When was it listed? March 1991
Category. district
Also known as. USDA Forest Service Administrative Buildings in Oregon and Washington Built by the CCC MPS
Census division. South Umpqua
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 91000162 - 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

93 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 93 fires within 5 miles of Tiller Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 189 acres in total. 48 started naturally. 8 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
Natural	48
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Recreation and ceremony	9
Arson/incendiarism	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	5
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Roseburg District	RONDEAU BUTTE
6 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	RONDEAU BUTTE
6 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	GOLDEN PIER
3 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Umpqua National Forest	not named
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Umpqua National Forest	not named
28 September 1994	Natural	1.2 acres	Douglas Forest Protective Association	DOMPIER CREEK
2 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	MILO #1
16 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	LITTLE WINTERS #2

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 41 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 41 workings within 5 miles of Tiller Ranger Station: 15 occurrences, 14 past producers, 7 prospects, 5 unknowns. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mercury, Chromium, Gold, Iron. 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
Pennel and Farmer Prospect	Copper	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite
Pennell and Farmer Prospect	Copper	Prospect
Brown Pit Usfs	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Brown Quarry Usfs	Stone	Past Producer
Brownie Pit & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Brownie Quarry & Plant	Stone	Past Producer
Cooper and Young Prospect	Iron	Occurrence	Magnetite
Goolaway Pit & Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Goolaway Quarry & Plant	Stone	Past Producer
Hamlin Iron Prospect	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tiller, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2015: 1 hail. 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
July 2015	Hail	Tiller	-	A member of the public reported golf-ball sized hail near Tiller. They uploaded a photo.

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Milo Academy Bridge	4.6 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000162 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas County	All 47 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.