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Bolan Mountain Fire Lookout, located just above the Oregon-California state line near Cave Junction, ... Oregon fire lookout to be rebuilt after 2020 Labor Day wildfire. Show comments.
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]
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality began requiring a permit for farmers to burn their fields in 1981, but the requirements became stricter in 1988 following a multi-car collision [61] in which smoke from field burning near Albany, Oregon, obscured the vision of drivers on Interstate 5, leading to a 23-car collision in which 7 people ...
In the early 1960s, the paper was the first to advocate that the Collier Tunnel along U.S. Route 199 near the Oregon-California border, be named for U.S. Senator Randolph Collier of California, known as the "father of California's Freeways." [10] [11] The paper was known as the Cave Junction Bulletin for a period including 1971. [12]
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There have been many notable wildfires in the history of the US state Oregon. List. 1902 ... Holloway Fire [1] Miller Homestead [1] 2014 Buzzard Complex [1] 2015; 2017.
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]
Burns Junction is an unincorporated community located in Malheur County, Oregon, United States, [1] situated at the intersection of U.S. Route 95 and Oregon Route 78, it lies approximately 80 miles (130 km) southeast of the Harney County city of Burns.