Olallie Lake Guard Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“Olallie Lake Guard Station is a former guard station in the Clackamas ranger district of the Mt. Hood National Forest, in Jefferson County, Oregon.”
Wikipedia article Olallie Lake 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. S of Pinhead Buttes, Mt. Hood NF, Estacada
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. 91000169 - 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

204 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 204 fires within 5 miles of Olallie Lake Guard Station between 1992 and 2019, burning about 4,799 acres in total. 142 started naturally. 1 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	142
Recreation and ceremony	40
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Smoking	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Warm Springs Agency	OLALLIE BUTTE
8 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	SPUD
7 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	WOLF SPRING CREEK
7 September 2008	Natural	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	BENCHMARK
5 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	CAMP 10
3 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	PENNINSULA 9
3 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Warm Springs Agency	TROUTLAKE2
29 September 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	OLALLIE

Every fire 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Olallie Meadows Guard Station	3.2 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000169 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marion County	All 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.