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One of 154 National Register listings published here for Jackson County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1937.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Reginald Parsons Dead Indian Lodge
Built in 1937. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 7 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Parsons, Reginald, Dead Indian Lodge - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Hyatt Prairie Rd. 21 mi. E of Ashland, Ashland, 97520
- When was it listed? June 1997
- Category. building
- Census division. Southeast Jackson
- When was it built? 1937
- National Register reference number. 97000588 - 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
110 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 110 fires within 5 miles of Reginald Parsons Dead Indian Lodge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 110 acres in total. 56 started naturally. 2 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 | 56 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 16 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 |
| Smoking | 9 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 2003 | Other causes | under an acre | Medford Unit | LILLY GLEN |
| 5 September 2013 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Medford District | HOWARD PRAIRIE 2 |
| 4 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 80 acres | Medford Unit | GRIZZLY CREEK |
| 4 September 2008 | Other causes | under an acre | Medford Unit | LILY GLENN |
| 29 September 2010 | Other causes | under an acre | Medford Unit | 18733 DEAD INDIAN |
| 29 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest | not named |
| 28 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Medford District | LILY GLEN2 |
| 28 September 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Medford District | DEADINDIAN |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Reginald Parsons Dead Indian Lodge: 2 producers, 1 past producer. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hammersley | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Burnt Creek Quarry | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Burnt Creek Quarry | Clay | Producer |
Storms near this property
15 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashland, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 9 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | A former local weathercaster reported winds gusting 50-60 mph in Ashland. |
| March 2011 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ashland | - | Numerous trees were broken or uprooted when the squall line went through. ODOT reported Oregon Highway 62 was closed by fallen trees. A house, shed, and mobile home in Rogue River were destroyed by falling trees. Another house was destroyed in Jacksonville. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Ashland | - | Most of the hailstones were nickel sized, some were quarter sized. The larger ones measured 11/8 inches in diameter. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Ashland | - | Golf ball size hail was reported at this location and time. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Ashland | - | A member of the public reported that water in Hamilton creek at the corner of East Main and Clay Creek was one foot from bankfull and rising rapidly.| |
| August 2007 | Hail | Ashland | - | An Ashland Emergency Manager reported large hail for a brief period in the late afternoon. This was the only report of severe hail among numerous reports of smaller hail, so it is assumed that the severe hail coverage was local and and period of time was brief. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Ashland | - | A former spotter in South Ashland reported 3.05 inches of rain in this time interval. |
| August 2007 | Flash Flood | Ashland | - | A spotter in South Ashland reported one foot of water running over the intersection of Whiteman and Siskiyou. |
| May 2005 | Hail | Ashland | - | A spotter 3SE Ashland reported 0.75 inch hail with a thunderstorm. |
| August 2003 | Hail | Ashland | - | Spotter JA58 reported hail, the largest of which was golf ball size. |
| July 1998 | Hail | Ashland | - | Thunderstorm produced dime size hail in north Ashland. |
| December 1996 | Flood | Ashland | - | small stream flooding was county wide |
| July 1995 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| July 1995 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
| August 1993 | Hail | Ashland | - | no account filed |
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
1 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Dead Indian Soda Springs Shelter | 7.9 miles | 2000 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 97000588 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.