Chavner Family House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

One of 154 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1996 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 12162 Blackwell Rd., Gold Hill, 97502
When was it listed? May 1996
Category. building
Census division. Medford
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 96000628 - 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

386 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 386 fires within 5 miles of Chavner Family House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 775 acres in total. 62 started naturally. 48 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
Equipment and vehicle use	95
Natural	62
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	49
Arson/incendiarism	48
Debris and open burning	35
Recreation and ceremony	25
Smoking	22
Power generation/transmission/distribution	17
Fireworks	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	10
Other causes	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	5

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
9 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medford District	ROGUE RIVER HWY
9 September 2004	Railroad operations and maintenance	12 acres	Medford Unit	RR MP 449.5
8 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medford District	MAPLE LANE
7 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Medford Unit	WILLOW SPRINGS
6 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Medford Unit	1567 SARDINE
6 September 1998	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Medford Unit	PP#12182
6 September 1998	Power generation/transmission/distribution	6.0 acres	Medford Unit	PP B10190
6 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	65 acres	Medford Unit	BLACKWELL ROAD

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 222 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 222 workings within 5 miles of Chavner Family House: 100 past producers, 47 occurrences, 39 producers, 33 prospects. 39 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Limestone, General. 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
Blanche Claim	Gold, Copper, Silver	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite, Quartz
Blanche Claim	Gold, Silver, Copper	Prospect
Braden Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Arsenic	Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite
Braden Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Arsenic	Past Producer
Bristol Silica Co. Mine	Silica, Dolomite	Producer
Gold Hill Mine	Gold, Platinum, Molybdenum	Past Producer	1857
Gold Hill Pocket	Gold, Molybdenum, PGE	Past Producer
Gold Ray Granite	Granite, Clay	Past Producer	Clay
Gold Ray Granite	Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Heath	Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Pyrite

Every working recorded in Jackson 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Thomas N. Anderson House	0.9 miles	1990
Gold Hill High School	1.0 miles	1991
Rock Point Hotel	2.9 miles	1980
White John B., House	2.9 miles	1978
E. Raymond Driver House	5.4 miles	1990
Henry Van Hoevenberg Jr. House	5.5 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000628 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson County	All 154 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.