Photograph of Old McKenzie Fish Hatchery — Photograph by Orygun, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

McKenzie Fish Hatchery, Old

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Old McKenzie Fish Hatchery was used to raise trout and salmon for release into the McKenzie River in western Oregon in the United States. It is located near the unincorporated community of Vida in Lane County.”
Wikipedia article Old McKenzie Fish Hatchery, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 123 National Register listings published here for Lane County · listed in 1996 · 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 8 buildingss, 7 structuress, 2 sitess as contributing to the listing.
Address. 44645 McKenzie Hwy., Leaburg, 97489
When was it listed? February 1996
Category. district
Census division. McKenzie River
National Register reference number. 96000142 - 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

54 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 54 fires within 5 miles of McKenzie Fish Hatchery, Old between 1993 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 11 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
Debris and open burning	17
Natural	11
Recreation and ceremony	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Fireworks	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	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 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	15400
7 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	9000 ALPHA
5 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	VIDA STORE POWERLINE
24 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	GOODPASTURE CAR FIRE
2 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	MCKENZIE HIKE FIRE
11 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	NFCA-44
4 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	LEABURG CANAL FIRE
30 August 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	ORCHARD FIRE

Every fire recorded in Lane 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
	Goodpasture Bridge	1.2 miles	1979
	Leaburg Hydroelectric Project Historic District	4.8 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000142 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lane County	All 123 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.