Built in 1876. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
From the record
“Damascus School, also known as the Damascus Pioneer Craft School, is an historic schoolhouse in Damascus, Oregon, United States, built in 1876. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Damascus School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 93 National Register listings published here for Clackamas County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1876.
National Register reference number.80003304- 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
26 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Damascus School
between 1992 and 2014, burning about 13 acres in total. None started naturally. 9 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
Debris and open burning
11
Arson/incendiarism
9
Smoking
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Recreation and ceremony
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
51 workings within 5 miles of Damascus School: 42 past producers, 9 producers.
9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Damascus, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 1 lightning, 1 tornado.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
Two men were struck by lightning standing near a house. Both men were in their 50s to 60s. Both were seriously injured by the strike, and were taken to different medical centers.
A tornado occurred in Damascus, Oregon just south of Hwy 212 between SE Tong Road and SE 232nd Drive. Damage occurred to numerous trees, mostly small and medium size branches. There were 5 trees (all pine or poplar) that were either snapped off or uprooted. The most significant property damage was noted near Royer Road where a large poplar tree was uprooted from very wet soil. This tree landed on parked vehicles, significantly damaging three of them. No structural damage to homes, roofs, windows, or outbuildings was found. Note: Start and end times were estimated from a combination of radar data and timestamps on videos from several members of the public who captured the event.
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.
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.
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