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One of 51 National Register listings published here for Deschutes County · listed in 2017 · category: District · built in 1903.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Pilot Butte Canal: Downtown Redmond Segment Historic District
Built in 1903. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 structuress as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. NW Canal Blvd. from approx. NW Quince to NW Dogwood Aves., Redmond, 97756
- When was it listed? July 2017
- Category. district
- Also known as. Carey and Reclamation Acts Irrigation Projects in Oregon, 1901-1978 MPS
- Census division. Redmond
- When was it built? 1903
- National Register reference number. 100001303 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
133 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Pilot Butte Canal: Downtown Redmond Segment Historic District between 1993 and 2020, burning about 276 acres in total. 41 started naturally. 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 41 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 32 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 13 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 11 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 7 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
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 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Prineville District | 1151 |
| 9 September 2001 | Fireworks | 1.0 acres | Prineville District | ANTLER AVE |
| 7 September 2017 | Natural | under an acre | Prineville District | 1109 |
| 4 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Prineville District | TWIN LK RD |
| 24 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Prineville District | 0608 |
| 21 September 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Prineville District | 0906 |
| 21 September 2001 | Smoking | under an acre | Prineville District | HWY 126 |
| 17 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Prineville District | E.ANTLER |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 37 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Pilot Butte Canal: Downtown Redmond Segment Historic District: 25 past producers, 12 producers. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airport Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Airport Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Clay | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Clay | Producer | ||
| C. A. Loe Pit | Pumice | Producer | ||
| Cinders Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| City of Redmond | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| City of Redmond | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| City of Redmond Pit | Pumice | Producer | ||
| City of Redmond Pit | Pumice | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
17 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Redmond, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 8 hail, 2 lightning, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flash flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Redmond | $200,000 | A powerful storm moved through the Deschutes County Fair injuring at least four people, flipping a large tent, and lifting an inflated laser tag game into a tree. A 40-by-40-foot tent flipped over and struck two people with 2 to 3 inch pipes, one went to the hospital. Two young men were playing in a 900 pound laser tag "bag" when a gust of wind picked up the balloon-like structure, with the men inside, and threw them into a tree. One of the young men received a bloody nose. The owner of the laser tag game estimated equipment losses as high as 100,000 dollars. Vendors' displays also were blown over and merchandise was damaged. |
| August 1999 | Lightning | Redmond | $25,000 | Lightning struck a home in Redmond damaging a portion of the roof. Other lightning strikes nearby caused power outages to around 2000 people throughout the towns of Bend and Sisters. |
| April 2003 | Dust Devil | Redmond | $10,000 | A strong dust devil blew a piece of metal roofing into power lines at a local furniture store. The dust devil tore through Umatilla Park and Sports Complex, destroying five baseball dugouts. Sagebrush and papers were reported to the height of power poles, and power was locally lost for three hours. |
| July 2000 | Flash Flood | Redmond | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Redmond | $500 | Hail cracked car windshield. Heavy rainfall produced local flooding. |
| May 2023 | Hail | Redmond | - | Social Media Report of 1.25in hail that fell just NE of Redmond, OR at 1630L. Time estimate based off radar. |
| May 2015 | Flash Flood | Redmond | - | Reports came in from social media that the right lane of Hwy 97 in Redmond was under water. |
| April 2010 | Hail | Redmond | - | Penny sized hail covered the ground. |
| June 2009 | Heavy Rain | Redmond | - | Rainfall rates of 1/4 inch in 5 minutes with a total of 1.30 inches. |
| June 2009 | Hail | Redmond | - | Accompanied by heavy rainfall. |
| August 2008 | Hail | Redmond | - | Large hail reported at Redmond Police Department. |
| August 2007 | Hail | Redmond | - | Hail accompanied by strong winds, heavy rainfall, and street floooding. |
| August 2007 | Heavy Rain | Redmond | - | Heavy rainfall accompanied by strong winds and large hail caused street flooding. |
| August 2007 | Thunderstorm Wind | Redmond | - | Several branches 2-3 inches in diameter downed at cemetary. |
| August 1998 | Lightning | Redmond | - | A lightning strike knocked out communication and computer systems at the Redmond City Hall and Police Department. Phone lines were repaired on the night of August 20, however some of the computer components were still down a week later. |
| August 2009 | Hail | Redmond | - | no account filed |
| July 2000 | Hail | Redmond | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norman and Frances Swanson House | 1.5 miles | 2022 | |
 | First Presbyterian Church of Redmond | 1.6 miles | 2001 |
| Redmond Downtown Historic District | 1.7 miles | 2017 | |
 | New Redmond Hotel | 1.8 miles | 1980 |
 | Milton Odem House | 1.9 miles | 1997 |
 | Petersen Rock Garden | 8.0 miles | 2013 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100001303 in Record Group 79. |
| Deschutes County | All 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.