First Presbyterian Church

Built in 1951 (Northwest Regional style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The First Presbyterian Church is located in Cottage Grove, Oregon, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).”
Wikipedia article First Presbyterian Church (Cottage Grove, Oregon), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 123 National Register listings published here for Lane County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1951, Northwest Regional style, by Pietro Belluschi.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 216 S. 3rd St., Cottage Grove, 97424
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. building
Census division. Cottage Grove
When was it built? 1951
Architectural style. Northwest Regional style
Architect. Pietro Belluschi
National Register reference number. 74001690 - 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

133 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 133 fires within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. 9 started naturally. 8 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
Equipment and vehicle use	30
Debris and open burning	25
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Recreation and ceremony	15
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Smoking	10
Natural	9
Arson/incendiarism	8
Other causes	3
Fireworks	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	DIVIDE
9 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Western Lane District	BENNETT CK BEE FARM FIRE
7 September 1998	Other causes	1.0 acres	East Lane Unit - ODF	HOOTEN
6 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	ELM STREET
6 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	FIR GROVE DUSTY GRAVE
5 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	GOWDYVILL2
5 September 1995	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	BRYSON SEARS
3 September 2001	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	East Lane Unit - ODF	DOWENS ROAD

Every fire recorded in Lane County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of First Presbyterian Church: 20 past producers, 13 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Putnam Deposit	Aluminum, Clay	Prospect
Putnam	Clay	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Horn Site	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Horn Site	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Trask Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Trask Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Lane County

Storms near this property

2 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cottage Grove, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2005: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. 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 2005	Lightning	Cottage Grove	-	no account filed
December 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Cottage Grove	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lane 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
Cottage Grove Downtown Commercial Historic District	0.2 miles	1994
Cottage Grove Armory	0.3 miles	2012
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church	0.3 miles	1997
Chambers Bridge	0.3 miles	1979
Horace J. and Ann S. Shinn Cottage	0.4 miles	1998
LaSells D. Stewart House	0.8 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001690 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lane County	All 123 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.