Antelope School

Built in 1925 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

“Antelope School is an historic building in Antelope, Oregon. Completed in 1924, the school is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Antelope School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Wasco County · listed in 2016 · category: Building · built in 1925, Neoclassical architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 45500 McGreer St., Antelope, 97001
When was it listed? June 2016
Category. building
Census division. Antelope
When was it built? 1925
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 16000347 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

9 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Antelope School between 1994 and 2018, burning about 4,884 acres in total. 3 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	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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
25 September 2012	Debris and open burning	660 acres	Prineville District	0584 ROOPER
2 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Prineville District	0700 ANTELOPE
2 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Prineville District	SHANIKO
3 July 2018	Power generation/transmission/distribution	300 acres	Prineville District	0539
3 July 2014	Natural	3,202 acres	Prineville District	0219 CAMP CREEK
28 June 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Prineville District	0380 ANTELOPE
22 June 1994	Natural	120 acres	Prineville District	COURTHOUSE
11 June 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	300 acres	Prineville District	0349

Every fire recorded in Wasco 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 Antelope School: 4 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Pumice. 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
Mcnamee Pit	Pumice	Producer
Brown	Stone	Past Producer
Helyer	Stone	Past Producer
Shaniko Rock Product	Stone	Past Producer
Brown Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Helyer Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Mcnamee	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Shaniko Rock Products Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Wasco County

Storms near this property

2 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Antelope, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2019: 2 hail. 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
June 2019	Hail	Antelope	-	Hail up to nickel size and .62 inches of rainfall in 15 minutes was reported.
August 2008	Hail	Antelope	-	Large hail was accompanied by heavy rainfall.

Every storm recorded in Wasco 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Columbia Southern Hotel	6.4 miles	1979
	Shaniko Historic District	6.4 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 16000347 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wasco County	All 31 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.