Barlow Road

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Barlow Road is a historic road in what is now the U.S. state of Oregon. It was built in 1846 by Sam Barlow and Philip Foster, with authorization of the Provisional Legislature of Oregon, and served as the last overland segment of the Oregon Trail.”
Wikipedia article Barlow Road, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Clackamas County · listed in 1992 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly, N of Salmon and White Rivers from Rhododendron to SW of Wamic, Mt. Hood NF, Rhodendron
When was it listed? April 1992
Category. district
National Register reference number. 92000334 - 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

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Barlow Road between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony	92
Natural	30
Smoking	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Debris and open burning	2
Other causes	1
Fireworks	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 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	BARLOW CROSSING
8 September 1997	Smoking	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	JACKIE 2
6 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	QUARRY
6 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	WHITE SALMON
5 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	FROG
5 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	MUD CREEK
30 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	SALMON-BARLOW
3 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	UPPER TWIN

Every fire recorded in Clackamas County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Barlow Road: 6 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
White River	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Green Lakes Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Jakey Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
U S Forest Service 29	Stone	Past Producer
Green Lakes Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Jakey Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
U S Forest Service 029	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
White River Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Clackamas 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
	Timberline Lodge	6.9 miles	1973
	Silcox Hut	7.7 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000334 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clackamas County	All 93 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.