Everything below comes straight from the federal record (USGS MRDS) — every documented gold occurrence, prospect and producer in Oregon, mapped and readable for free. Not the famous names retold: the actual filed records, including the quiet ground between the famous districts.
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Principal recorded commodities: Gold (3,827) · Sand and Gravel, Construction (2,985) · Stone (2,421) · Stone, Crushed/Broken (1,988) · Chromium (1,166) · Silver (632).
The counties with the most recorded gold occurrences — each links to its own page and into the live map of that ground (claims, creeks, roads and geology on):
| County | Gold records | Producers |
|---|---|---|
| Baker County map → | 837 | 304 |
| Josephine County map → | 775 | 368 |
| Grant County map → | 586 | 217 |
| Jackson County map → | 559 | 309 |
| Lane County map → | 206 | 67 |
| Malheur County map → | 179 | 55 |
| Curry County map → | 161 | 63 |
| Douglas County map → | 110 | 63 |
| Harney County map → | 92 | 9 |
| Linn County map → | 70 | 29 |
Sites the federal record lists with medium or large production — proven ground worth a careful, legal look at the country around it:
| Site | County | Status | Recorded size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Basin Creek Site | Malheur | Producer | Medium |
| Briggs Pocket | Josephine | Producer | Medium |
| Foots Creek Placers | Jackson | Producer | Medium |
| Greenhorn Placers | Grant, Baker | Past Producer | Medium |
| Old Channel | Josephine | Producer | Medium |
| Sterling Mine | Jackson | Past Producer | Medium |
| Sumpter Dredges | Baker | Past Producer | Medium |
| Upper Applegate Placers | Jackson | Past Producer | Medium |
The free map shows every dot above. Membership opens the layers that turn dots into a plan — favorability at working zoom, active claims, land ownership, geology and the creeks that drain the known sources. The first 7 days are free.
The dots are the record. The method is how you read them: