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Photograph of Springdale School
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Springdale School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

“The Springdale School, now the Springdale Community Center, is a building located in Springdale, Oregon, United States on the National Register of Historic Places. The single-story, Art Deco-style building was designed by Claud Freeman and constructed in 1931 by Claude Woodle.”

Wikipedia article Springdale School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 650 National Register listings published here for Multnomah County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 32405 E. Historic Columbia R. Hwy., Corbett, 97019
  • When was it listed? October 2011
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Corbett
  • Architectural style. Art Deco architecture
  • National Register reference number. 11000771 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Springdale School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 305 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Fireworks3
Arson/incendiarism3
Smoking2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Debris and open burning2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
29 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
24 September 2005Smoking10 acresColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaVISTA
22 September 1994Smoking1.0 acresMolalla UnitTUCKER RD
2 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaSANDY 2
12 September 1999Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreMolalla UnitPHELPS RD FIRE
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaSANDY JUNCTION
10 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMolalla UnitDESPERATION #1
8 August 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMolalla UnitDODGE PARK RD FIRE

Every fire recorded in Multnomah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Springdale School: 14 past producers, 11 producers, 1 plant. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Troutdale SmelterAluminumPlant
Camp Collins YmcaGeothermalProducer
Columbia Brick WorksClayPast Producer
Columbia Brick WorksClayProducer
CorbettGeothermalProducer
Midvale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Midvale QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Multnomah County

Storms near this property

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corbett, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2014: 2 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2014Heavy RainCorbett-The Oregon Department of Transportation suggested that heavy rain was responsible for a small landslide that occurred near Corbett, Oregon. Official NWS stations reported between 0.5 to 3 inches of rain in Multnomah County in the afternoon and evening. The landslide closed both lanes of the Historic Columbia River Highway just east of the Vista House for a few hours Wednesday evening.
May 2006Heavy RainCorbett-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Multnomah 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 11000771 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Multnomah CountyAll 650 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.