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One of 21 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1885.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Dry Creek School
Built in 1885. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 69281 Summerville Rd., Summerville, 97876
- When was it listed? August 2000
- Category. building
- Census division. Elgin
- When was it built? 1885
- National Register reference number. 00001019 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
61 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Dry Creek School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 162 acres in total. 34 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Natural | 34 |
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2001 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | LaGrande District | PUMPKIN RIDGE |
| 5 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Umatilla National Forest | SMITH CANYON |
| 25 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Wallowa-Whitman National Forest | NIPS |
| 13 September 2003 | Debris and open burning | 45 acres | LaGrande District | CRAIG LOOP |
| 8 August 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | LaGrande District | COFFIN #1 |
| 7 August 2008 | Natural | under an acre | LaGrande District | NICE |
| 5 August 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Umatilla National Forest | NINE MILE |
| 5 August 1994 | Natural | under an acre | Umatilla National Forest | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 20 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Dry Creek School: 14 past producers, 5 producers, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Geothermal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Hot Spring | Geothermal | Occurrence | ||
| Wagner Well | Geothermal | Producer | ||
| Elgin | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Lough | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Elgin Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Elgin Rock Production | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Lough Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Elgin Rock Production | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | Sedimentary |
Storms near this property
6 since 2012Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Summerville, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 2012 and 2016: 5 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2012 | Thunderstorm Wind | Summerville | $100,000 | Witnesses described a sudden microburst damaged two locations west of Summerville. A large tree crashed through one house, while the residents were not at home. Another downed tree took out a power line and damaged the roof. |
| May 2016 | Hail | Summerville | - | no account filed |
| July 2016 | Hail | Summerville | - | no account filed |
| May 2015 | Hail | Summerville | - | no account filed |
| June 2015 | Hail | Summerville | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Hail | Summerville | - | no account filed |
Map coverage status
No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.
Listed places nearby
1 within 8 milesOther National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Elgin City Hall and Opera House | 6.1 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00001019 in Record Group 79. |
| Union County | All 21 listed properties in this county. |
Provenance
- Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
- Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
- How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
- Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
- Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.