College Creek Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The College Creek Ranger Station, near Imnaha, Oregon, United States, outside of Enterprise, Oregon, was built in 1935. It is located along the Imnaha River in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.”
Wikipedia article College Creek Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Wallowa 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

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Imnaha R., Wallowa--Whitman National Forest, Imnaha, 97842
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. Imnaha
National Register reference number. 91000171 - 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

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of College Creek Ranger Station between 1992 and 2019, burning about 14,083 acres in total. 44 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	44
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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 1998	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa Unit	FREEZEOUT
29 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	GRANNY SPRINGS
25 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa Unit	IRRITATION
16 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	MONUMENT RIDGE
14 September 2005	Debris and open burning	1,419 acres	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	TURNER CREEK
7 August 2010	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	BEAR MOUNTAIN
7 August 2008	Natural	25 acres	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	DEAD SHEEP
7 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	not named

Every fire recorded in Wallowa County

Storms near this property

19 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Imnaha, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 6 hail, 5 flood, 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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
May 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Imnaha	$10,000	Winds from a severe thunderstorm estimated at 70 mph felled several trees just north of Imnaha. Several other locations near town also lost trees and large branches. An estimated 0.8 inches of rain fell in 30 minutes just north of Imnaha.
June 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Imnaha	$1,000	Strong winds from a thunderstorm knocked down several trees. In addition, an estimated one inch of rain fell in 10 to 15 minutes in Imnaha.
July 2002	Flash Flood	Imnaha	$1,000	Nearly stationary thunderstorm with heavy rainfall caused 1-2 feet of water to flow over road to Halfway.
July 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Imnaha	-	Social media reported a large tree down in Imnaha with power outages. Wind gust of 56 mph measured from co-op observer.
May 2018	Hail	Imnaha	-	Largest hail estimated at 1 inch in diameter near Imnaha in Wallowa county.
May 2017	Flood	Imnaha	-	The Imnaha River at Imnaha had minor flooding early on May 6th, due to snow melt. The river crested at the flood stage of 5.5 feet early on May 6th.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Imnaha	-	Public reported 12 large trees downed.
July 2016	Hail	Imnaha	-	Although this is reported as 1 inch hail, it was discovered 15 hours after the storm. Indicating this could have been much larger hail.
April 2012	Flood	Imnaha	-	The Imnaha River at Imnaha crested at 5.94 feet on April 26 at 10:30 pm. Flood stage is 5.5 feet.
August 2010	Hail	Imnaha	-	Hail of ping pong and golf ball size reported by the public and a spotter.
June 2010	Flood	Imnaha	-	The Imnaha River at Imnaha crested at 6.1 feet on June 4 at 730 pm. Flood stage is 5.5 feet.
May 2008	Flood	Imnaha	-	The Imnaha River gage crested several times above flood stage with a peak of 6.26 on May 19.
May 2006	Flood	Imnaha	-	Minor flooding along the Imnaha river near Imnaha. River crested at 5.61 feet on 05/21/06. Flood stage is 5.5 feet.
August 2001	Lightning	Imnaha	-	Lightning sparked the Horse Creek fire, which burned over 15,000 acres along a ridge between Horse Creek and the Imnaha River. This fire, which was finally contained on the 24th of August, threatened the town of Imnaha and led to the closure of Hat Point Road.
May 1998	Heavy Rain	Imnaha	-	3.10 inches of rain fell in a 25 hour period. Springs and streams flowing out of canyons flooded and left one to one and a half foot deep ruts in some roads.
August 2010	Hail	Imnaha	-	no account filed
June 2004	Flash Flood	Imnaha	-	no account filed
September 2004	Hail	Imnaha	-	no account filed
June 1999	Hail	Imnaha	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wallowa 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000171 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wallowa County	All 22 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.
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.