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One of 93 National Register listings published here for Clackamas County · listed in 2020 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Buena Vista Social Clubhouse
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2020.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 1601 Jackson St., Oregon City, 97045
- When was it listed? June 2020
- Category. building
- Census division. Northwest Clackamas
- National Register reference number. 100005321 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2018Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Buena Vista Social Clubhouse in 2018, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | FERGUSON FLOWER BED |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 29 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Buena Vista Social Clubhouse: 16 past producers, 11 producers, 2 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Silica, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pynns Rock Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Seventh Day Adventists | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Francis Welsh Silica Mine | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Francis Welsh Silica Mine | Silica | Past Producer | ||
| Nature Conservatory | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Nature Conservatory | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Pynns Rock Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Seventh Day Adventists | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Terrill Silica Deposit | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Terrill Silica Deposit | Silica | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oregon City, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 4 flood, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2022 | Debris Flow | Oregon City | $50,000 | Oregon 99E was closed due to a rock fall which damaged a large truck. Around 2 to 3 inches of rain fell. |
| October 2000 | Tornado (F1) | Oregon City | $35,000 | no account filed |
| December 2014 | Heavy Rain | Oregon City | - | The Oregon Department of Transportation reported that heavy rain resulted in a rockslide that blocked Highway 99E in Oregon City. |
| January 2012 | Flood | Oregon City | - | Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoff caused the Willamette River below the Falls at Oregon City to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Willamette River crested at 29.1 feet on January 21st at 5 pm PST, 2.1 feet above flood stage. |
| November 2006 | Flood | Oregon City | - | The Clackamas River near Oregon City crested at 39.4 feet on November 7th, with flood stage at 39.0 feet. |
| January 2006 | Flood | Oregon City | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Oregon City | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oregon City | - | no account filed |
| December 2005 | Flood | Oregon City | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Oregon City | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Erwin Charles Hackett House | 0.3 miles | 1985 |
 | Charles C. Babcock House | 0.4 miles | 1982 |
 | DeWitt Clinton Latourette House | 0.4 miles | 1992 |
| McLoughlin House National Historic Site | 0.4 miles | 1966 | |
 | Francis Ermatinger House | 0.5 miles | 1987 |
 | George Lincoln Storey House | 0.5 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100005321 in Record Group 79. |
| Clackamas County | All 93 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.