DeMoss Springs Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“DeMoss Springs Park is a park located near Moro, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The site was once the settlement of the DeMoss family, a noted family singing group that toured as the DeMoss Lyric Bards during the period 1872 to 1912.”
Wikipedia article DeMoss Springs Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Sherman County · listed in 2007 · category: Site.

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

The listing

Address. DeMoss Springs, off US 97 approximately 3 mi. north of Moro, DeMoss Springs, 97039
When was it listed? April 2007
Category. site
Census division. Wasco
National Register reference number. 07000366 - 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

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of DeMoss Springs Park between 2007 and 2012, burning about 15,592 acres in total. None 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
3 August 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15,591 acres	Prineville District	0621
19 July 2012	Power generation/transmission/distribution	1.2 acres	Prineville District	0292

Every fire recorded in Sherman County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of DeMoss Springs Park: 4 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Hockman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hockman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Lone Rock	Stone	Past Producer
Lone Rock Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Mp 4.8 Wasco-Heppner Hwy	Stone	Past Producer
Mp 4.8 Wasco-Heppner Hwy	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Sherman 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

3 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
Columbia Southern Railroad Passenger Station and Freight Warehouse	5.5 miles	1991
John and Helen Moore House	5.8 miles	1994
Sherman County Courthouse	7.8 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000366 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sherman County	All 4 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.