Built in 1943. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
From the record
“Madras Municipal Airport, formerly City-County Airport, is a public use airport located three nautical miles (6 km) northwest of the central business district of Madras, a city in Jefferson County, Oregon, United States. According to the FAA's National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2009-2013, it is classified as a general aviation airport.”
Wikipedia article Madras Municipal Airport, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · built in 1943.
National Register reference number. 15000331 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
50 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Madras Army Air Field North Hanger
between 1994 and 2019, burning about 3,610 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
26
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Debris and open burning
5
Arson/incendiarism
4
Natural
2
Recreation and ceremony
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Smoking
1
Fireworks
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
19 workings within 5 miles of Madras Army Air Field North Hanger: 11 past producers, 7 producers, 1 occurrence.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Mercury. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Madras, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1997 and 2022: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 2 wildfire, 1 heavy rain.
The reports record 1 death. 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.
The Madras airport ASOS measured a wind gust of 67mph at 5:55pm. An NWS employee 1 mile southwest of Madras, OR also witnessed thunderstorm outflow winds that blew down fences, produced low visibilities in blowing dust, and also produced a gustnado in nearby farm fields.
A wild fire burned 500 acres of rangeland about 5 miles west of Madras and prompted the evacuation of about 150 homes. No homes burned, however, one outbuilding and some farm equipment was destroyed by the fire. About 300 firefighters, 24 fire engines, helicopters and three air tankers were called in to help fight the fire. Two firefighters were injured, one suffered heat exhaustion and the other had a back injury.
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
3 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.
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.
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