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Photograph of Marion Forks Guard Station
Photograph by 46percent, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Marion Forks Guard Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Marion Forks Guard Station is a historic United States Forest Service administrative site near Marion Forks, Oregon, in Willamette National Forest. Built in 1935, the station originally combined office space with employee living quarters and was accompanied by a detached two-vehicle garage.”

Wikipedia article Marion Forks Guard Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 120 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 1991 · 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. OR 22, Willamette NF, Marion Forks, 97350
  • 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
  • National Register reference number. 91000167 - 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Marion Forks Guard Station between 1992 and 2018, burning about 190 acres in total. 28 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
Natural28
Recreation and ceremony6
Smoking2
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWillamette National ForestPAMELIA CREEK
6 September 2008Naturalunder an acreWillamette National ForestINC 305
13 September 1992Smokingunder an acreWillamette National Forestnot named
7 August 1999Naturalunder an acreWillamette National ForestRED 90
6 August 2008Naturalunder an acreWillamette National ForestLIZARD POINT
6 August 2000Debris and open burning2.3 acresWillamette National ForestBENTSTEP
4 August 1999Naturalunder an acreWillamette National ForestBRUNO
27 August 2008Naturalunder an acreWillamette National ForestINC 298

Every fire recorded in Marion 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 Marion Forks Guard Station: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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
Minto QuarryStonePast Producer
Minto QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Oregon Pacific Railroad Linear Historic District7.4 miles1999

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91000167 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marion CountyAll 120 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.