Lodgepole Guard Station

Built in 1933. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

One of 154 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1933.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. SE of Prospect, Rogue R. NF, Butte Falls
When was it listed? March 1991
Category. building
Also known as. USDA Forest Service Administrative Buildings in Oregon and Washington Built by the CCC MPS
Census division. Butte Falls-Prospect
When was it built? 1933
National Register reference number. 91000164 - 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

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Lodgepole Guard Station between 1992 and 2019, burning about 492 acres in total. 86 started naturally. 2 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	86
Recreation and ceremony	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Debris and open burning	2

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
29 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Medford Unit	MILL MAR RANCH
27 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medford District	VINE MAPLE
25 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
2 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	ALTA CREEK

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Lodgepole Guard Station: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Zimmerman Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
	Zimmerman Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Butte Falls, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2010: 1 flash flood, 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
December 2004	Flash Flood	Butte Falls	-	A spotter at Hwy 140 10 SE Butte Falls reported that Butte Creek had water running over the road and the creek rising rapidly.
August 2010	Hail	Butte Falls	-	no account filed

Every storm 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

2 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
	Imnaha Guard Station	4.1 miles	1986
	Parker Meadows Shelter	4.6 miles	2000

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000164 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.
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.