Antlers Guard Station

Built in 1935. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Antlers Guard Station is a rustic cabin located in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in northeastern Oregon, United States. It was originally built to house fire crews assigned to patrol the surrounding National Forest.”
Wikipedia article Antlers Guard Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Baker County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1935.

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. SE of Whitney, Wallowa--Whitman NF, Whitney
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. Hereford
When was it built? 1935
National Register reference number. 91000166 - 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

118 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 118 fires within 5 miles of Antlers Guard Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 113 acres in total. 81 started naturally. None was 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	81
Recreation and ceremony	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	4
Debris and open burning	3
Equipment and vehicle use	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
8 September 2006	Natural	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	OR-MAF-203
7 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	JUSTICE
5 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	MAGGIE
29 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Malheur National Forest	OR-MAF-356
21 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	not named
2 September 2017	Natural	8.5 acres	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	HIGHWAY
2 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	PATRICK CREEK
17 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Baker Unit	TROUT CREEK

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Antlers Guard Station: 5 past producers, 3 prospects, 2 unknowns, 2 occurrences. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Manganese, Platinum, Silver. 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
Hindman Placer	Gold, Platinum, Silver	Past Producer	Stream Placer
Hindman Placer	Gold, Silver, Platinum	Prospect
Hawes and Lafferty Manganese	Manganese	Prospect
O'Brien Manganese Prospect	Manganese	Unknown
Forest Rd 1062	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Forest Rd 1062	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Gold Mine	Gold	Past Producer
N Fork Burnt River Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Timms Gold Dredging Co.	Gold	Prospect
Tipton Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Baker 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
	Sumpter Valley Railway Historic District	3.0 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000166 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Baker County	All 14 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.