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Photograph of English Settlement School
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

English Settlement School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The English Settlement School is a school building in Oakland, Oregon, in the United States. The building was constructed in 1910 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 4, 2007.”

Wikipedia article English Settlement School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 2007 · 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. 17455 Elkhead Rd., Oakland, 97462
  • When was it listed? September 2007
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Sutherlin
  • National Register reference number. 07000924 - 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

71 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of English Settlement School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 169 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use15
Debris and open burning15
Natural13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Power generation/transmission/distribution5
Other causes4
Recreation and ceremony3
Arson/incendiarism3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Smoking1

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 2008Power generation/transmission/distribution3.0 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationHOG CREEK
9 September 1998Debris and open burning40 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationNORTH OLD TOWN RD.
9 September 1996Power generation/transmission/distribution81 acresDouglas Forest Protective AssociationGOODRICH HIGHWAY
8 September 2018Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersPLAT B
7 September 2017Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersBEN MORE MOUNTAIN
7 September 1992Other causesunder an acreDouglas Forest Protective AssociationSPARKS ROAD
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersELKHEAD RD.
6 September 2017Naturalunder an acreRoseburg DistrictBEN MORE MTN

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of English Settlement School: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mercury. 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
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Butte ProspectMercuryOccurrence
Butte ProspectMercuryProspect
Cabin Cr. Marsh Cr. # 75 Quarry # 2Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Cabin Creek, Marsh Creek #75 Quarry # 2StonePast Producer
Hogan SiteStonePast Producer
Hogan SiteStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
ManningMercuryOccurrence
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Baimbridge-Kanipe Farmstead Historic District0.8 miles2008
Oakland Historic District5.0 miles1979
Sutherlin Bank Building7.2 miles1984

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000924 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas CountyAll 47 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.