Oregon Iron Company Furnace

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Oregon Iron Company Furnace, or Oswego Iron Furnace, is an iron furnace used by the Oregon Iron Company, in Lake Oswego, Oregon's George Rogers Park, in the United States. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and underwent a major renovation in 2010.”
Wikipedia article Oregon Iron Company Furnace, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Clackamas County · listed in 1974 · category: Structure.

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 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. George Rogers Park, Lake Oswego, 97034
When was it listed? February 1974
Category. structure
Census division. Northwest Clackamas
National Register reference number. 74001674 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of Oregon Iron Company Furnace: 26 past producers, 12 producers, 1 occurrence. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Francis Welsh Silica Mine	Silica	Occurrence
Francis Welsh Silica Mine	Silica	Past Producer
Oswego Iron Mine	Iron	Past Producer	1867, 1894
Oswego Iron Mine	Iron	Past Producer
Durham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Grimms Fuel Co. Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Lake Oswego Pit and Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Pynns Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Seventh Day Adventists	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Waluga Park	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clackamas County

Storms near this property

1 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lake Oswego, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2005: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Lake Oswego	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clackamas 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
George Rogers House	0.2 miles	1996
Iron Workers' Cottage	0.2 miles	2009
Lake Oswego Odd Fellows Hall	0.2 miles	1979
Mathieson-Worthington House	0.5 miles	1990
Marshall Dana House	0.6 miles	1992
Osco C. Roehr House	0.8 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001674 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clackamas County	All 93 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.
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.