Central Oregon Canal Historic District (Ward Road-Gosney Road Segment)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.

From the record

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Deschutes County · listed in 2019 · category: District.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Roughly bounded by Somerset Dr., Bear Creek , Gosney & Ward Rds., Bend, 97702
When was it listed? March 2019
Category. district
Also known as. Carey and Reclamation Acts Irrigation Projects in Oregon, 1901-1978 MPS
Census division. Bend
National Register reference number. 100003461 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

174 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 174 fires within 5 miles of Central Oregon Canal Historic District (Ward Road-Gosney Road Segment) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,689 acres in total. 76 started naturally. 1 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
Natural	76
Recreation and ceremony	50
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Debris and open burning	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Fireworks	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Smoking	3
Other causes	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
8 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Prineville District	0795
8 September 1995	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Deschutes National Forest	933
6 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Prineville District	BEAR CREEK
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Prineville District	0875
3 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Deschutes National Forest	0561 NE
28 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Deschutes National Forest	1227
27 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Deschutes National Forest	0922
24 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Deschutes National Forest	822

Every fire recorded in Deschutes County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Central Oregon Canal Historic District (Ward Road-Gosney Road Segment): 14 past producers, 8 producers, 2 unknowns. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Cinders	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Horse Butte Cinder Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Shalex Cinder Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Tumalo Mine	Stone	Past Producer
Tumalo Mine	Stone	Producer
Cascade Pumice Co	Pumice	Past Producer
Cascade Pumice Co	Pumice	Unknown
Horse Butte Cinder Pit	Pumice	Producer
Mid-Oregon Iron Works	Pumice	Past Producer
Mid-Oregon Iron Works	Pumice	Producer

Every working recorded in Deschutes County

Storms near this property

60 of 90 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Bend, the town this property stands in, in 90 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 62 hail, 10 lightning, 6 thunderstorm wind, 5 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 2004	Lightning	Bend	1 hurt, $1,000	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Bend	$7,000,000	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Bend	$2,000,000	A spotter reported hail up to 1 3/4 inch in Redmond along with heavy rain. 1/2 inch hail was reported in Bend. A local newspaper reported 2 inch hail in Terrebonne with damage to roofs, patio furniture, trees, windows, cars, satellite dishes, solar panels, corn and hay fields. The hail piled up more than four inches deep in places. Damage claims are estimated to be near two million dollars.
June 1997	Lightning	Bend	$1,500,000	Lightning blew up a large transformer and a small natural gas pipeline east of Bend. About 14,000 customers were without power for an hour. Twentyfive customers were without gas untill a section of the pipe was replaced.
August 2012	Lightning	Bend	$75,000	Lightning started a fire at the Presbyterian Church on 9th Street.
July 2010	Lightning	Bend	$50,000	Lightning strikes hit two homes. One of the strikes put a hole in the roof. The other started an attic fire which had to be extinguished by the Bend firefighters.
August 2019	Lightning	Bend	$12,000	Lightning caused damage to an unoccupied vehicle in Bend. The lightning entered through the windshield.
May 2000	Lightning	Bend	$2,000	Lightning struck a transformer near Tumalo on Twin Bridges Road. This briefly knocked out power to around 24 homes nearby in Bend. Lightning also sparked several small fires nearby.
July 1999	Lightning	Bend	$1,000	Thunderstorms developed around Bend during the afternoon. Lightning struck a home in western Bend, damaging a wall and some electrical circuits. Frequent lightning also started several dozen small fires around the area.
August 2025	Hail	Bend	-	Multiple weather spotters and members of the public posting on Facebook reported severe hail of 1 to 1.5 inches falling around southern and eastern Bend, Oregon.
August 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Bend	-	ODOT sensors recorded thunderstorm gusts up to 63 mph associated with a severe cell that tracked north northwest over Bend, Oregon. This storm also produced severe hail around the Bend area.
July 2022	Hail	Bend	-	Hail stones between 1 inch to 1.75 inches in diameter were produced by a slow moving thunderstorm that passed over the Bend, OR area.
June 2021	Hail	Bend	-	A severe thunderstorm developed and sat over the Bend, OR area for about 30 minutes, producing half an inch to 1.25 inch sized hailstones during the duration of the storm.
August 2021	Hail	Bend	-	A report relayed by a local television station in Deschutes county of hail slightly larger than one inch southeast of Bend, OR.
May 2017	Hail	Bend	-	Measure 2 inch hail occurred in northwest Bend in Deschutes county.
April 2017	Tornado (EF0)	Bend	-	Brief apparent tornado lifting tumble weeds on Jewell school grounds. Lasted about a minute and moved off into an empty field before dissipating. No damage reported. Also 1/2 inch of hail accumulation with stones around 1/4 to 3/8 inches in diameter. Track estimated.
August 2012	Hail	Bend	-	Brief large hail occurred during heavy rainfall of 1.26 inches over a 2 hour period.
August 2011	Hail	Bend	-	Hail was accompanied by heavy rainfall which produced street flooding.
July 2010	Heavy Rain	Bend	-	One half to one inch of rain fell in 15-25 minutes. An underpass was flooded which closed 3rd street.
July 2010	Hail	Bend	-	Hail up to penny size and heavy rainfall for 15 minutes.
June 2009	Heavy Rain	Bend	-	Slow moving thunderstorms produced heavy rainfall and hail 1/4 inch to 3/4 inch in diameter which caused widespread street flooding. U.S. Highway 97 had traffic stopped. Hail covered the ground to a depth of 4 inches at the base of Pilot Butte. Rainfall reports ranged between 1 and 2 inches.
June 2009	Hail	Bend	-	Penny hail accompanied by heavy rainfall and street flooding.
June 2009	Heavy Rain	Bend	-	Estimated one inch of rain in 20 minutes. Local street flooding. Hail up to 1/2 inch diameter.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Bend	-	Tree fell on house during thunderstorm winds.
May 2006	Hail	Bend	-	Hail covered ground to 1 inch.
June 2006	Funnel Cloud	Bend	-	Funnel cloud observed moving over Highway 97.
July 2006	Lightning	Bend	-	Lightning hit a main electrical transmission line at the Pilot Butte substation and knocked out power to 31,500 people until power was restored at 6:08 PM PST.
July 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Bend	-	Tree limbs down near St. Charles Medical Center east side of Bend.
June 2006	Flash Flood	Bend	-	Major flooding at underpasses in Bend. City crews pumped out several feet of water from underpasses at Greenwood and Franklin Avenues and Third Street. Vehicles were stalled and had to be towed out of flooded underpasses.
August 2003	Heavy Rain	Bend	-	Heavy rains resulted in flooding in some of the underpasses in Bend.
April 2003	Funnel Cloud	Bend	-	A short lived cold core funnel cloud occurred 5-6 miles south of Bend.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Bend	-	Thunderstorms which moved through Deschutes County brought small hail and wind gusts to 40 knots. The winds knocked down tree branches and caused local power outages.
August 2002	Flash Flood	Bend	-	Heavy rain caused underpasses to flood to a depth of four feet.
March 2000	Lightning	Bend	-	During a snowstorm, lightning struck a 230,000 volt transmission line just east of Bend. Power was briefly lost to around 25,000 customers in and around Bend.
August 1999	Hail	Bend	-	Winds gusts of 40 to 50 mph and street flooding accompanied dime-sized hail.
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Bend	-	Thunderstorm wind gust of 60 mph was reported eight miles north of Bend. Heavy rain and 1/4 inch hail was also reported.
August 1998	Hail	Bend	-	A spotter in Bend reported 3/4 inch hail.
July 1997	Hail	Bend	-	Hail from 0.75 to 1.75 inches fell in Bend.
July 1997	Heavy Rain	Bend	-	Heavy rain from a thunderstorm filled underpasses in Bend up to the windows of stuck cars. Lightning strikes knocked out power to at least 1,000 customers from Bend to Terrebonne. Some phone service was also down for a while.
May 2020	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
July 2014	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
July 2014	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
July 2014	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
August 2014	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
July 2014	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
August 2014	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
August 2014	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
August 2014	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
August 2014	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
September 2013	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
August 2011	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
July 2010	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
May 2009	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Bend	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Deschutes 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
New Taggart Hotel	4.7 miles	1988
Old Town Historic District	4.7 miles	2001
Downing Building	4.8 miles	2004
O'Kane Building	4.8 miles	1986
D.H. Sphier Building	4.8 miles	2020
N. P. Smith Pioneer Hardware Store	4.9 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100003461 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.