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Oregon Caves Historic District

Built in 1926 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Oregon Caves Historic District covers 6 acres (24,000 m2) in the main visitor area of Oregon Caves National Monument in southern Oregon. The district includes four primary buildings plus two other structures.”

Wikipedia article Oregon Caves Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 69 National Register listings published here for Josephine County · listed in 1992 · category: District · built in 1926, National Park Service rustic.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Caves Hwy., Oregon Caves NM, Siskiyou NF, Cave Junction, 97530
  • When was it listed? February 1992
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Cave Junction
  • When was it built? 1926
  • Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
  • National Register reference number. 92000058 - 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

79 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Oregon Caves Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 309 acres in total. 55 started naturally. 3 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
Natural55
Recreation and ceremony9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestABANDONED PEPPER CMP
7 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestPEPPER CAMP
7 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreGrants Pass UnitCAVE CAMP
6 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresMedford DistrictQUINES CREEK
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestELK HORN
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestLAKE MNT
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestYEAGER
5 September 2019Naturalunder an acreRogue River-Siskiyou National ForestBUCK PEAK

Every fire recorded in Josephine County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 88 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 88 workings within 5 miles of Oregon Caves Historic District: 32 occurrences, 22 past producers, 19 prospects, 9 unknowns. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Chromium, Limestone, General, Copper. 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
Boswell ProspectGold, SilverProducerGold
BrownCopper, Gold, Silver, NickelOccurrenceChalcopyrite, Pyrrhotite
BrownCopper, Silver, Nickel, GoldProspect
Gem Quartz MineGold, CopperProducerChalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite
Grayback ProspectManganese, IronOccurrenceHematite
Grayback ProspectManganese, Iron, GoldProspect1958
Iron MineGold, Silver, CopperOccurrence
Iron MineGold, Silver, CopperProspect
June GroupIron, ManganeseOccurrenceMagnetite
June GroupIron, ManganeseProspect

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

3 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 Caves Chateauunder 500 feet1987
Oregon Caves Historic District (Boundary Increase)0.3 miles2012
Cedar Guard Station No. 10194.0 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92000058 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Josephine CountyAll 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.