Methodist Episcopal Church of Union

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 667 N Main Street, Union, 97883
When was it listed? September 2025
Category. building
Census division. Union
National Register reference number. 100012335 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

6 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Methodist Episcopal Church of Union between 1994 and 2016, burning about 630 acres in total. 5 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
Natural	5
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
20 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	LaGrande District	SAW MILL
2 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	LaGrande District	CRAIG MOUNTAIN
14 August 1996	Natural	410 acres	LaGrande District	HOG VALLEY
11 July 2001	Natural	under an acre	LaGrande District	DIPPOLD
29 June 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	220 acres	LaGrande District	PHYS POINT
28 May 2016	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	DJ

Every fire recorded in Union 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 Methodist Episcopal Church of Union: 21 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Geothermal, 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	Recorded
Union Station Hot Spring	Geothermal	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Miller	Stone	Past Producer
Miller Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this property

13 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Union, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 7 hail, 2 heavy rain, 2 flood, 1 strong 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
April 2019	Flood	Union	$250,000	There was widespread flooding of fields and lowlands along the river across Union County. There were at least 5000 acres of agricultural land flooded and numerous roads had damage.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Union	$1,000	High winds accompanying a thunderstorm in Union blew tree branches into power lines, locally knocking out power to residences and businesses.
July 2012	Hail	Union	-	Hail accompanied by strong winds and rainfall of .40 inch in 15 minutes.
June 2011	Heavy Rain	Union	-	Rainfall of 1.2 inches fell in less than 1 hour.
June 2010	Hail	Union	-	Golfball sized hail fell for 5 minutes.
June 2010	Flood	Union	-	Flooding along Little Creek damaged a few homes in Union.
May 1999	Strong Wind	Union	-	Gusty south winds from the Pyles Canyon area caused downed power lines and knocked over a large fir tree.
May 1998	Heavy Rain	Union	-	0.75 inches of rain fell in 20 minutes with water standing in the streets. Less than 1/4 inch hail.
July 2015	Hail	Union	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Union	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Union	-	no account filed
August 2013	Hail	Union	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Union	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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

5 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
Abel E. Eaton House	0.1 miles	1977
Union Main Street Historic District	0.3 miles	1997
W. J. Townley House	0.3 miles	1980
Hot Lake Resort	5.0 miles	1979
Ascension Episcopal Church and Rectory	6.4 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100012335 in Record Group 79.
Union County	All 21 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.