Is there gold in Oregon?

Club 49 maps documented gold occurrences, old workings, claims and land status across Oregon, drawn from USGS and BLM public records. It is free to use.

Do I need permission to dig in Oregon?

A marker is a public record, never permission. Check land ownership, active claims and local rules before you dig anywhere.

Prospecting in Oregon

What is on the map, and where the stories are

On the map for Oregon

Layer	What it shows
Documented gold	USGS mineral records, old workings and placer ground
Claims & land status	BLM mining claims and who manages the surface
Water	Live USGS gauges and the months each creek runs lowest
Fossil ground	Published localities, colour-coded by whether you may collect
Legends	8 mapped for Oregon

The legends of Oregon

The Lost Blue Bucket Mine — A documented 1845 wagon disaster that produced a genuinely unfindable creek
Fort Rock Cave and the oldest shoes on Earth — The oldest dated footwear on Earth, from a cave 70 miles south of Bend
Crater Lake: the battle of Llao and Skell — A 7,700-year-old eyewitness account of a volcanic collapse, still being told
The Bohemia district and Bohemia Johnson — TRUE FIND: a documented Cascade gold district
The Port Orford meteorite — A documented 19th-century hoax, told as exactly that
The D.B. Cooper ransom — FBI case history; the recovered bills are documented fact
The Blue Bucket Mine — The most famous lost placer in the Northwest
The Neahkahnie treasure and the beeswax wreck — The wreck is real and studied; the chest is the legend

Before you dig

A marker is a public record, not permission. Check ownership, active claims and the local rules first — the map shows all three.

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