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Ascension Episcopal Church and Rectory

Built in 1874 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Ascension Episcopal Church and Rectory (built are a historic church building and associated clergy house in Cove, Oregon, United States.”
Wikipedia article Ascension Episcopal Church (Cove, Oregon), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for Union County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1874, Gothic Revival.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Church St., Cove, 97824
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. building
Census division. Cove
When was it built? 1874
Architectural style. Gothic Revival
National Register reference number. 74001718 - 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

33 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 33 fires within 5 miles of Ascension Episcopal Church and Rectory between 1994 and 2020, burning about 260 acres in total. 20 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	20
Recreation and ceremony	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	LaGrande District	DEER ROAD
10 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	LaGrande District	HIGH VALLEY
6 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	FANNY
6 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	LaGrande District	ORCHARD
5 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	EVEREST
4 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	not named
30 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	LaGrande District	STUMP
3 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	LaGrande District	BARREL CREEK

Every fire recorded in Union County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Ascension Episcopal Church and Rectory: 7 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Geothermal. 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
Cove Springs	Geothermal	Producer
Hay Creek Rock Production	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Hay Creek Rock Production	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Miller Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Mp 14.5 Cove Hwy	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mp 14.5 Cove Hwy	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Union County

Storms near this property

11 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cove, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 2000 and 2018: 5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flood. 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
July 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cove	$5,000	Winds from a dry microburst downed tree limbs up to 5 inches thick. A tree fell on a power line, causing a brief power outage. Blowing dust at one point reduced visibilities to just 50 feet.
May 2000	Lightning	Cove	$3,000	A power pole fire resulting from lightning knocked out power to around 500 residents. Power was restored by mid-afternoon.
May 2018	Heavy Rain	Cove	-	A thunderstorm produced heavy rain in and around Cove, in Union county. One half inch to one inch of rain fell on this area over approximately a one and half hour period.
July 2012	Hail	Cove	-	Hail accompanied by heavy rainfall.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Cove	-	Thunderstorm winds broke tree limbs 6 inches in diameter across power lines.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Cove	-	Tree limbs 4 inches in diameter fell due to thunderstorm winds.
August 2013	Hail	Cove	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Cove	-	no account filed
June 2010	Hail	Cove	-	no account filed
June 2010	Flood	Cove	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Cove	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Union 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
Methodist Episcopal Church of Union	6.4 miles	2025
W. J. Townley House	6.5 miles	1980
Abel E. Eaton House	6.5 miles	1977
Union Main Street Historic District	6.7 miles	1997
Hot Lake Resort	8.0 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001718 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Union County	All 21 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.