Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
From the record
“The Camp Sherman Community Hall is the center of social activity in the community of Camp Sherman in central Oregon. The hall hosts a variety of public and private events throughout the year.”
Wikipedia article Camp Sherman Community Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.03000070- 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
164 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 164 fires within 5 miles of Camp Sherman Community Hall
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5,284 acres in total. 61 started naturally. 1 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
61
Recreation and ceremony
45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
17
Smoking
12
Equipment and vehicle use
10
Debris and open burning
8
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Other causes
2
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Camp Sherman Community Hall: 1 past producer, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Camp Sherman, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2001 and 2003: 2 wildfire, 1 lightning, 1 hail.
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.
The Booth and Bear Butte Fires burned a total of 91,000 acres. The cause of the fire was determined to be prior lightning strikes which created some hot spots that later flared up into a wildfire. Dry conditions and occasionally higher winds contributed to the growth of the fire. Hundreds of residents were evacuated from Camp Sherman. Eight camp cabins were destroyed at the Round Lake Christian Camp. In addition, three other outbuildings were also destroyed. More than 2,000 personal were involved in the Booth and Bear Butte Fires. The cost of fighting the fire totaled more than 32 million dollars. The property damage from this event is unknown.
The Booth and Bear Butte Fires began on August 19th and burned a total of 91,000 acres. The cause of the fire was determined to be prior lightning strikes which created hot spots that later flared up into a wildfire. Dry conditions and occasionally higher winds contributed to the growth of the fire. Hundreds of residents were evacuated from Camp Sherman. Eight camp cabins were destroyed at the Round Lake Christian Camp. In addition, three other outbuildings were also destroyed. More than 2,000 personnel were involved in the Booth and Bear Butte Fires. The cost of fighting the fire totaled more than 32 million dollars. The property damage from this event is unknown.
Lightning started a 6 day fire that burned 1800 acres northwest of Camp Sherman. This fire, named the Bald Peter Fire, threatened trout habitat in the Metolius River and cost 1.2 million dollars to control.
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.
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.
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