Weston School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Umatilla County · listed in 2011 · category: District.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 205 E. Wallace St., Weston, 97886
When was it listed? December 2011
Category. district
Census division. Weston
National Register reference number. 11000976 - 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 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Weston School between 1993 and 2020, burning about 1,895 acres in total. 4 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	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	1
Fireworks	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 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	POWER POLE
8 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Pendleton Unit	HWY 204 MP 2.5
27 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Pendleton Unit	PINE CREEK ROAD
24 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	4.5 acres	Pendleton Unit	LITTLE DRY CREEK
16 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	not named
9 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	241 acres	Umatilla Agency	KIRK ROAD
8 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Umatilla Agency	RAINVILLE
7 August 1998	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Pendleton Unit	SLEEPY GROVE

Every fire recorded in Umatilla County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Weston School: 6 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Blue Mtn Station	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Blue Mtn Station	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
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Weston Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Weston Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Umatilla County

Storms near this property

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Weston, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2001 and 2017: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud. 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
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	$10,000	Thunderstorm winds downed several trees and many large branches, knocking out electricity for around 8 hours. Several residents reported broken windows due to flying debris.
June 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	-	Thunderstorm wind gust to 62 mph with sustained winds of 24 mph at the same time.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Weston	-	Tree downed onto vehicle from thunderstorm winds.
July 2001	Hail	Weston	-	Along with nickle sized hail, wind gusts of 65 mph were reported at the same time 2 miles away in Pine Creek Canyon.
May 2005	Funnel Cloud	Weston	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Umatilla 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
Weston Commercial Historic District	under 500 feet	1982
Isham Saling House	0.3 miles	1976
Winn Barn	2.1 miles	2011
M. L. Watts House	3.2 miles	1988
Adams Odd Fellows Hall	7.4 miles	1994
Reese and Redman General Merchandise Store	7.5 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000976 in Record Group 79.
Umatilla County	All 43 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.