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Photograph of First Presbyterian Church of Redmond
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First Presbyterian Church of Redmond

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“Built in 1912, the First Presbyterian Church of Redmond is the oldest standing church structure in the city of Redmond, Oregon, United States. It is also the second-oldest religious building in Deschutes County.”

Wikipedia article First Presbyterian Church of Redmond, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Deschutes County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 641 SE Cascade Ave., Redmond, 97756
  • When was it listed? September 2001
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Redmond
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States, Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 01000931 - 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church of Redmond between 1992 and 2020, burning about 56 acres in total. 50 started naturally. 9 were 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
Natural50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined27
Recreation and ceremony12
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning6
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Fireworks4
Smoking3
Other causes3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePrineville District1151
9 September 2001Fireworks1.0 acresPrineville DistrictANTLER AVE
7 September 2017Naturalunder an acrePrineville District1109
4 September 2000Naturalunder an acrePrineville DistrictTWIN LK RD
24 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePrineville District0608
21 September 2001Smokingunder an acrePrineville DistrictHWY 126
17 September 1995Naturalunder an acrePrineville DistrictE.ANTLER
15 September 2007Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresPrineville District0923 CANAL FIRE

Every fire recorded in Deschutes County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church of Redmond: 21 past producers, 10 producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Pumice, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Airport QuarryStonePast Producer
Airport QuarryStonePast Producer
ClayClayPast Producer
Unnamed PitClayProducer
City of Redmond PitPumiceProducer
City of Redmond PitPumicePast Producer
Dunn Pit and PlantPumicePast Producer
E. A. Moore PitPumiceProducer
Helmholtz PitPumicePast Producer
Helmholtz PitPumiceProducer

Every working recorded in Deschutes County

Storms near this property

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redmond, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 8 hail, 2 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1998Thunderstorm WindRedmond$200,000A powerful storm moved through the Deschutes County Fair injuring at least four people, flipping a large tent, and lifting an inflated laser tag game into a tree. A 40-by-40-foot tent flipped over and struck two people with 2 to 3 inch pipes, one went to the hospital. Two young men were playing in a 900 pound laser tag "bag" when a gust of wind picked up the balloon-like structure, with the men inside, and threw them into a tree. One of the young men received a bloody nose. The owner of the laser tag game estimated equipment losses as high as 100,000 dollars. Vendors' displays also were blown over and merchandise was damaged.
August 1999LightningRedmond$25,000Lightning struck a home in Redmond damaging a portion of the roof. Other lightning strikes nearby caused power outages to around 2000 people throughout the towns of Bend and Sisters.
April 2003Dust DevilRedmond$10,000A strong dust devil blew a piece of metal roofing into power lines at a local furniture store. The dust devil tore through Umatilla Park and Sports Complex, destroying five baseball dugouts. Sagebrush and papers were reported to the height of power poles, and power was locally lost for three hours.
July 2000Flash FloodRedmond$10,000no account filed
August 2008HailRedmond$500Hail cracked car windshield. Heavy rainfall produced local flooding.
May 2023HailRedmond-Social Media Report of 1.25in hail that fell just NE of Redmond, OR at 1630L. Time estimate based off radar.
May 2015Flash FloodRedmond-Reports came in from social media that the right lane of Hwy 97 in Redmond was under water.
April 2010HailRedmond-Penny sized hail covered the ground.
June 2009Heavy RainRedmond-Rainfall rates of 1/4 inch in 5 minutes with a total of 1.30 inches.
June 2009HailRedmond-Accompanied by heavy rainfall.
August 2008HailRedmond-Large hail reported at Redmond Police Department.
August 2007HailRedmond-Hail accompanied by strong winds, heavy rainfall, and street floooding.
August 2007Heavy RainRedmond-Heavy rainfall accompanied by strong winds and large hail caused street flooding.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindRedmond-Several branches 2-3 inches in diameter downed at cemetary.
August 1998LightningRedmond-A lightning strike knocked out communication and computer systems at the Redmond City Hall and Police Department. Phone lines were repaired on the night of August 20, however some of the computer components were still down a week later.
August 2009HailRedmond-no account filed
July 2000HailRedmond-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Deschutes County

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

6 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000931 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Deschutes CountyAll 51 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.