Briggs Pocket

Briggs Pocket is a producer of gold in Josephine County, Oregon, in USGS's medium output class. USGS gives a discovery year of 1904. It is one of 407 historic gold producers USGS lists in Josephine County, and number 1 when they are sorted by output class.

Facts

USGS status
Producer
Output class
medium (USGS class)
Commodities
Gold
Discovered
1904
County
Josephine County
State
Oregon
Land status (BLM data)
Federal land in a US Forest Service national forest or grassland
USGS record
10043152

Source: USGS Mineral Resources Data System (retrieved 2026-10-13). The database was last updated around 2011, positions can be approximate, and "producer" does not mean a mine is operating today. "Output class" is a code whose meaning changed over the years, so compare sites inside this data and do not read it as tonnage.

This location is mapped as federal land. Public land is not an invitation to enter old workings. Ask the managing agency about access, claims and closures.