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One of 69 National Register listings published here for Josephine County · listed in 1998 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Dimmick-Judson House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 906 NE Eighth St., Grants Pass, 97526
- When was it listed? June 1998
- Category. building
- Census division. Grants Pass
- National Register reference number. 98000629 - 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
465 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 465 fires within 5 miles of Dimmick-Judson House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 398 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 17 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 | 115 |
| Debris and open burning | 67 |
| Smoking | 51 |
| Natural | 50 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 44 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 31 |
| Fireworks | 29 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 24 |
| Other causes | 22 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 17 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 10 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 4 |
| Firearms and explosives use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Medford District | GRANITE HILL 3 |
| 9 September 2011 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Grants Pass Unit | VERTICAL DRIVE |
| 9 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Grants Pass Unit | I-5 MP 55 OVERPASS #2 |
| 9 September 2001 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Grants Pass Unit | HIGHLAND AVE |
| 8 September 2011 | Smoking | 2.5 acres | Grants Pass Unit | HILLCREST |
| 8 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Grants Pass Unit | 2119 WILLIAMS HWY |
| 8 September 2002 | Fireworks | under an acre | Grants Pass Unit | FOOTHILL BLVD |
| 7 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Medford District | DEVILS SLIDE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 56 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 56 workings within 5 miles of Dimmick-Judson House: 30 past producers, 11 producers, 7 occurrences, 7 prospects. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silver. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centennial | Gold, Mercury | Occurrence | Cinnabar, Gold | |
| Centennial Group | Gold, Mercury | Prospect | ||
| Granite Hill Mine | Gold, Lead, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Ida Mine | Gold, Silver, Copper, Antimony, Mercury, Lead | Past Producer | Chalcopyrite, Cinnabar, Galena, Pyrite, Stibnite | |
| Ida Mine | Gold, Arsenic, Copper, Mercury, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Jewett Mine | Gold, Tellurium, Bismuth, Silver, Copper, Arsenic | Producer | Altaite, Gold, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sylvanite, Tetradymite | |
| Jewett Mine | Gold, Arsenic, Silver, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Red Jacket Mine | Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper | Past Producer | ||
| Cal-Ore Power Co. | Nickel | Occurrence | ||
| Cal-Ore Power Co. | Nickel | Unknown |
Storms near this property
9 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grants Pass, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 4 hail, 2 lightning, 2 heavy rain, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2012 | Flood | Grants Pass | $4,000,000 | Spotters reported up to five inches of rain along with localized flooding with this storm. Local roads near OBrien were flooded in four different places. |
| July 2007 | Lightning | Grants Pass | $60,000 | The steeple of the Newman United Methodist Church was struck twice this day, damaging the steeple, windows, organ, and some other stuff. Damage amounted to $60,000. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Grants Pass | - | A thunderstorm in south Grants Pass dropped hail a little bigger than quarter sized...about 1 inch in diameter. Associated winds were 20 to 25 mph. |
| April 2005 | Heavy Rain | Grants Pass | - | A spotter 4 NNW of Grants Pass recorded 3.60 inches of rain in one hour ending at 1630 PDT. |
| April 2005 | Heavy Rain | Grants Pass | - | A spotter 2 N of Grants Pass recorded 2.00 inches of rain in one hour ending at 1630 PDT. |
| September 1997 | Hail | Grants Pass | - | 1-1/4 inch hail. |
| September 1997 | Hail | Grants Pass | - | 3/4-1 inch hail covered the ground. |
| September 1997 | Hail | Grants Pass | - | 3/4 inch hail. Storm knocked out power to about 75 residences. |
| April 1998 | Lightning | Grants Pass | - | 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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Joseph Fetzner House | under 500 feet | 1990 |
 | John and Susanna Ahlf House | 0.2 miles | 1983 |
| Dr. William H. Flanagan House | 0.3 miles | 1983 | |
 | Thomas Croxton House | 0.3 miles | 1979 |
 | Robert and Lucy McLean House | 0.3 miles | 1984 |
 | Albert B. and Mary Cornell House | 0.3 miles | 2002 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 98000629 in Record Group 79. |
| Josephine County | All 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.
- 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.