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Photograph of Painter's Woods Historic District
Photograph by M.O. Stevens, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Painter's Woods Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“The Painter's Woods Historic District, located in Forest Grove, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Painter's Woods includes the earliest modern subdivision addition to Forest Grove, and represents Forest Grove's transition from a largely agrarian community to a small-urban center of commerce and education.”

Wikipedia article Painter's Woods Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2009 · category: District.

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

The listing

Fires near this property

8 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Painter's Woods Historic District between 2000 and 2020, burning about 18 acres in total. 3 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
Equipment and vehicle use3
Natural3
Debris and open burning2

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
19 September 2020Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersNL210 RD POSITIVE STRIKE
7 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSOUTHFORK CARPENTER CR R
5 August 2003Naturalunder an acreForest Grove District1S4W BURN
5 August 2003Naturalunder an acreForest Grove DistrictGALES PEAK FIRE
20 August 2016Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersMCLOUGHLIN FIRE
29 July 2018Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersOPPENLANDER LANE FIRE
2 April 2000Debris and open burning17 acresForest Grove DistrictHERR ROAD FIRE
2 October 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersOMEGA DRIVE FIRE

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Painter's Woods Historic District: 13 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Forest Grove Clay Products CoClayPast Producer
Forest Grove Clay Products Co.ClayPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Carpenter Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hergert QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Otto Rock PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Plant #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Forest Grove, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2018: 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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
October 2018Tornado (EF0)Forest Grove$100,000Multiple greenhouse structures were damaged at a farm on Thatcher Road. Witness accounts also confirmed a tornado. The tornado was likely on the ground for about 30 seconds to 1 minute.
December 2007Heavy RainForest Grove-Storm total precipitation was 6.37 inches.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Isaac Macrum Houseunder 500 feet1998
Clark Historic District0.3 miles2002
C.W. Mertz Rental House #20.4 miles2005
James D. Robb House0.4 miles1988
Benjamin Cornelius Jr. House0.4 miles1988
Alvin T. Smith House0.5 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 09000360 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington 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.