Photograph of The Look-Out on Cape Foulweather — Photograph by Kirt Edblom from Corvallis, Oregon, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Look-Out on Cape Foulweather, The

Built in 1937. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · built in 1937.

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.
Address. 4905 Otter Crest Loop, Otter Rock, 97369
When was it listed? January 2015
Category. building
Census division. Newport
When was it built? 1937
National Register reference number. 14001159 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

15 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Look-Out on Cape Foulweather, The between 1994 and 2014, burning about 97 acres in total. 2 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
Smoking	5
Debris and open burning	3
Natural	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
30 August 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Toledo Unit	FOULWEATHER
2 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BEVERLY FIRE
8 July 1994	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Toledo Unit	BEVERLY BEACH
6 July 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Toledo Unit	MOOLACH CREEK
5 July 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Toledo Unit	ROCKY CREEK
4 July 2005	Natural	2.5 acres	Toledo Unit	ROCKY CREEK
31 July 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Toledo Unit	SPENCER CREEK
25 July 1996	Other causes	under an acre	Toledo Unit	BEVERLY BEACH STATE PARK

Every fire recorded in Lincoln 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 Look-Out on Cape Foulweather, The: 5 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Iron Mountain Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Iron Mountain Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Iron Mountain Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Iron Mountain Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Little Iron Mtn Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Little Iron Mtn. Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Otter Crest Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Otter Crest Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln 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
Rocky Creek Bridge No. 01089	1.3 miles	2005
TRADEWINDS KINGFISHER (Cruiser)	3.4 miles
Depoe Bay Bridge No. 01388	3.4 miles	2005
Depoe Bay Ocean Wayside	3.6 miles	2012
Yaquina Head Lighthouse	5.8 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14001159 in Record Group 79.
Lincoln County	All 19 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.