St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, also known as the Church of St. John in the Woods, is a historic church building located off Barlow Trail Road near Welches, Oregon, and originally located on Highway 26 in Welches, Oregon.”
Wikipedia article St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church (Zigzag, Oregon), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Clackamas County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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 as contributing to the listing.
Address. SW of Zigzag on Truman Rd., Zigzag, 97049
When was it listed? December 1979
Category. building
Census division. Mount Hood
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 79002045 - 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

100 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 100 fires within 5 miles of St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 35 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 6 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
Recreation and ceremony	32
Debris and open burning	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	2

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 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Molalla Unit	TRUCKER BARREL
8 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	HIDE AND SEEK TREE
8 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	CEDAR
7 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	ROCKFACE 2
5 September 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BRIGHTWOOD LOOP
4 September 2006	Natural	10 acres	Mt. Hood National Forest	919
27 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	MOUNTAIN LANE FIELD
26 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	CAMP CREEK

Every fire recorded in Clackamas 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 St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church: 29 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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
Cheeney Creek Prospects	Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Producer	Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Cheeney Creek Prospects	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead	Past Producer
Arrah Wanna Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Arrah Wanna Co.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Brightwood Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Carver Pit and Plant #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Carver Pit and Plant #2	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hood-Land Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hood-Land Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Norman Strabein	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clackamas County

Storms near this property

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Zigzag, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2014: 1 hail, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 1 injury. 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
August 2014	Flash Flood	Zigzag	1 killed, 1 hurt	Heavy rain resulted in the Sandy River to rapidly rise. A foot bridge near Ramona Falls broke loose sending a man into the turbulent waters. The man drowned in the river.
August 2003	Hail	Zigzag	-	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

4 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
Zigzag Ranger Station	1.0 miles	1986
Oregon Trail, Barlow Road Segment	1.6 miles	1974
Wilbur and Evelyn Reid's Alderbrook Lodge	2.6 miles	2004
Rock Corral on the Barlow Road	5.7 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002045 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.
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.