Lowell Grange

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Lowell Grange, also known as Lowell School, in the rural community of Lowell, Oregon, was built in 1940 as a school building. Later, although in historic era, it was renovated to be used as a Grange hall.”
Wikipedia article Lowell Grange, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 123 National Register listings published here for Lane County · listed in 2005 · 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 51 E 2nd St., Lowell, 97452
When was it listed? August 2005
Category. building
Census division. Lowell
National Register reference number. 05000849 - 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

145 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 145 fires within 5 miles of Lowell Grange between 1992 and 2020, burning about 134 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning	41
Equipment and vehicle use	35
Recreation and ceremony	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	10
Natural	7
Other causes	7
Smoking	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Fireworks	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Firearms and explosives use	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 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	LITTLE FALL CREEK STAT
7 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	EAGLES ROCK
5 September 2001	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	EAGLES REST
5 September 1992	Other causes	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	JACOBY MOUNTAIN
4 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	CLAUSE RD STAT
4 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	FALL CREEK DAM
4 September 2002	Power generation/transmission/distribution	2.4 acres	East Lane Unit - ODF	HAROLDS
4 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	WEIGH STATION

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Lowell Grange: 8 past producers, 5 producers, 3 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Arsenic. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Fall Creek Ranch	Clay	Occurrence	Kaolinite
Fall Creek Ranch	Clay	Past Producer
Snyder Ranch Arsenic	Arsenic	Occurrence	Realgar
Snyder Ranch Arsenic	Arsenic	Occurrence
Fall Creek Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Fall Creek Qurry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Little Fall Creek	Stone	Past Producer
Little Fall Creek Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Olga Kordon	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lane County

Storms near this property

1 since 2019

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lowell, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2019: 1 debris flow. 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
April 2019	Debris Flow	Lowell	$100,000	Oregon Department of Transportation had to close highway 58 due to at least 3 landslides between Lowell and Oakridge. There were other landslides reported around the area as well, along LaDuke Road, Big Fall Creek Road, Winberry Road, and Sweet Creek Road.

Every storm recorded in Lane 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Lowell Bridge	0.9 miles	1979
Unity Bridge	1.7 miles	1979
Parvin Bridge	2.5 miles	1979
Pengra Bridge	4.4 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000849 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lane County	All 123 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.