Speed's Place on the Rogue

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

One of 69 National Register listings published here for Josephine County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.

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 5 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 11407 Merlin--Galice Rd., Galice, 97532
When was it listed? June 1991
Category. building
Census division. Northwest Josephine
National Register reference number. 91000808 - 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 Speed's Place on the Rogue between 1992 and 2020, burning about 53,350 acres in total. 60 started naturally. 7 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	60
Recreation and ceremony	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Arson/incendiarism	7
Fireworks	6
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
5 September 2003	Natural	4.2 acres	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	TAYLOR CREEK # 2
5 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grants Pass Unit	480 GALICE ROAD
28 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Medford District	GALICECRK
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Medford District	RUM CREEK
28 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Medford District	RUM CRK 2
24 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest	not named
2 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Medford District	HELLGATE
2 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Medford District	CENTENNIAL

Every fire recorded in Josephine County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 165 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 165 workings within 5 miles of Speed's Place on the Rogue: 63 occurrences, 42 past producers, 32 prospects, 23 producers. 23 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Copper, Chromium. 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
Almeda	Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Barium-Barite, Zinc, Antimony	Past Producer	1899, 1905
Almeda	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper, Antimony, Barium-Barite	Past Producer
Black Bear Mine	Gold, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Brass Ledge Quartz Claim	Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Quartz
Buffalo Group	Gold, Copper, Silver	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Gold Prospect	Gold, Stone	Occurrence
Golden Pheasant Group	Molybdenum, Gold	Occurrence	Gold, Molybdenite
Independence Claim	Gold, Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Mayflower Group	Silver, Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Mill Creek Prospect	Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Malachite

Every working recorded in Josephine 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
	Rand Ranger Station	1.6 miles	1999
	Whisky Creek Cabin	6.2 miles	1975

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000808 in Record Group 79.
Josephine County	All 69 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.