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One of 93 National Register listings published here for Clackamas County · listed in 1981 · category: Building · built in 1915.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Jackson, C. S. "Sam", Log House
Built in 1915. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 2 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 14999 S. Springwater Rd., Oregon City, 97045
- When was it listed? December 1981
- Category. building
- Census division. Northwest Clackamas
- When was it built? 1915
- National Register reference number. 81000479 - 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
14 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Jackson, C. S. "Sam", Log House between 1992 and 2014, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 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.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Molalla Unit | BARTON BRIDGE |
| 8 August 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Molalla Unit | S HWY 224 |
| 4 August 2012 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | EAST BARTON |
| 26 August 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | CAZADERO TRAIL #7 |
| 25 August 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | CAZADERO TRAIL 6 |
| 23 August 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Molalla Unit | SPACE #58 |
| 22 August 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | CAZADERO TRAIL 5 |
| 22 August 2014 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | CAZADERO TRAIL 4 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 46 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 46 workings within 5 miles of Jackson, C. S. "Sam", Log House: 34 past producers, 11 producers, 1 occurrence. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Francis Welsh Silica Mine | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Francis Welsh Silica Mine | Silica | Past Producer | ||
| Damascus Pit & Plant | Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| E Fischer | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| E Fischer | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Old Barton Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Old Barton Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Quarry 3 | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Seventh Day Adventists | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Seventh Day Adventists | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
10 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oregon City, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 4 flood, 2 hail, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2022 | Debris Flow | Oregon City | $50,000 | Oregon 99E was closed due to a rock fall which damaged a large truck. Around 2 to 3 inches of rain fell. |
| October 2000 | Tornado (F1) | Oregon City | $35,000 | no account filed |
| December 2014 | Heavy Rain | Oregon City | - | The Oregon Department of Transportation reported that heavy rain resulted in a rockslide that blocked Highway 99E in Oregon City. |
| January 2012 | Flood | Oregon City | - | Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoff caused the Willamette River below the Falls at Oregon City to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Willamette River crested at 29.1 feet on January 21st at 5 pm PST, 2.1 feet above flood stage. |
| November 2006 | Flood | Oregon City | - | The Clackamas River near Oregon City crested at 39.4 feet on November 7th, with flood stage at 39.0 feet. |
| January 2006 | Flood | Oregon City | - | no account filed |
| September 2006 | Hail | Oregon City | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oregon City | - | no account filed |
| December 2005 | Flood | Oregon City | - | no account filed |
| May 1996 | Hail | Oregon City | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Horace Baker Log Cabin | 0.2 miles | 1976 |
 | Walter Rosenfeld Estate | 2.4 miles | 2003 |
 | Damascus School | 2.7 miles | 1980 |
 | Hiram A. Straight House | 4.2 miles | 1978 |
 | Andrew J. and Anna B. Johnston Farmstead | 4.8 miles | 1997 |
| Buena Vista Social Clubhouse | 4.9 miles | 2020 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 81000479 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.