Dorchester House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Lincoln County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

Sources: 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 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2701 U.S. 101, Lincoln City, 97367
When was it listed? February 1980
Category. building
Census division. Lincoln City
National Register reference number. 80003337 - 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

58 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 58 fires within 5 miles of Dorchester House between 1993 and 2016, burning about 27 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony	36
Debris and open burning	10
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Smoking	2
Fireworks	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Other causes	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
3 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Toledo Unit	LINCOLN CITY BEACH
25 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Siuslaw National Forest	BURNT TRAILER
2 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	8.9 acres	Toledo Unit	2200 ROAD
19 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	E. DEVILS LAKE RD FIRE
18 September 2001	Other causes	under an acre	Toledo Unit	EAST DEVILS LAKE
16 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	51ST STREET FIRE
15 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Toledo Unit	DRIFTWOOD
14 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	ROADS END BEACH FIRE #2

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Dorchester House: 12 past producers, 10 producers. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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
Baldy Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Clay	Producer
Baldy Creek Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Devils Lake Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Devils Lake Quarry	Stone	Producer
Ford Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lyons Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this property

3 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lincoln City, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
December 2015	Heavy Rain	Lincoln City	1 killed, 1 hurt, $1,240,000	Heavy rain resulted in a multiple of large land slides from Florence to Newport. A landslide in Newport damaged 6 homes and resulted in the evacuation of other near by homes. A car fell into a sink hole in Newport as it opened up a garage. One landslide that struck a home killed an elderly woman and her dog, and injured her husband. A creek near Yachats River Rd pushed a home off of its foundation as it rerouted from the heavy rain. Highway 229 in Siletz flooded. The Siletz River near Siletz and the Alsea River near Tidewater exceeded flood stage. A new daily rainfall record was set in Newport when 3.08 inches of rain on the 17th broke the previous record of 2 inches that was last set in 1925.
January 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln City	$1,500,000	no account filed
December 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Lincoln City	-	Strong, gusty winds were reported at Lincoln City with sustained winds of 35 kts and gusts to 53 kts.

Every storm recorded in Lincoln 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003337 in Record Group 79.
Lincoln County	All 19 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.