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One of 93 National Register listings published here for Clackamas County · listed in 2024 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Camp Namanu
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- Address. 10300 SE Camp Namanu, Sandy, 97055
- When was it listed? March 2024
- Category. district
- Census division. Mount Hood
- National Register reference number. 100009998 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
80 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Camp Namanu between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 34 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 7 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Mt. Hood National Forest | WALKER PRAIRIE OR-951 ASSIST |
| 9 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Molalla Unit | BULL RUN TRAILER |
| 8 September 2006 | Other causes | under an acre | Molalla Unit | CHICKEN COOP |
| 8 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Molalla Unit | BLUFF CAR FIRE |
| 7 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Molalla Unit | DUSTY LANE #1 |
| 27 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Molalla Unit | SKOGAN RD #1 |
| 23 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Molalla Unit | SHORTY GRASS FIRE |
| 20 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | LE ANN FIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Camp Namanu: 7 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basalt Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Oregon State Highway Division 3 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Oregon State Highway Division 3 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sandy, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2007: 3 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2007 | Hail | Sandy | $5,000 | no account filed |
| August 1999 | Hail | Sandy | - | Another thunderstorm in a very active convective evening produced 1 3/4 inch hail in Sandy. |
| May 2006 | Hail | Sandy | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | R. S. Smith Motor Company Building | 3.7 miles | 1994 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100009998 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.