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The Illinois Valley Airport, also known as the Siskiyou Smokejumper Base, or even the Cave Junction Airport, was built by the US Forest Service. It operated from 1943 to 1981 as a smokejumper base, during which time the smokejumpers parachuted on 1445 fires for 5390 fire jumps, or about 142 jumps per year. [ 3 ]
Cave Junction vicinity: 49: Claus and Hannchen Schmidt House: Claus and Hannchen Schmidt House: January 21, 2004 : 508 SW 5th St. Grants Pass: 50: Siskiyou Smokejumper Base: Siskiyou Smokejumper Base: November 17, 2006
Cave Junction is a city in Josephine County, Oregon, United States.As of the 2020 census, the city population was 2,071.Its motto is the "Gateway to the Oregon Caves", [5] and the city got its name by virtue of its location at the junction of Redwood Highway (U.S. Route 199) and Caves Highway (Oregon Route 46). [6]
Smokejumpers are described in Philip Connor's 2011 book Fire Season. [22] Author Nora Roberts's 2011 novel Chasing Fire details the lives and loves of a group of smokejumpers at Missoula Smokejumper Base. [23] Author M. L. Buchman's Firehawks Smokejumpers Trilogy, published in 2014 and 2015, follows a team of fictitious Oregon-based ...
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The former Rogue River portion of the Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest is located in parts of five counties in southern Oregon and northern California. In descending order of land area they are Jackson, Klamath, Douglas, Siskiyou, and Josephine counties, with Siskiyou County being the only one in California.
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For the airport near Cave Junction, Oregon, see Illinois Valley Airport. Illinois Valley Regional Airport (IATA: VYS, ICAO: KVYS, FAA LID: VYS), also known as Walter A. Duncan Field, is a city-owned, public-use airport located 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) northwest of the central business district of Peru, a city in LaSalle County, Illinois, United States. [1]