BlockFrom the record
One of 36 National Register listings published here for Hood River County · listed in 1981 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Cloud Cap-Tilly Jane Recreation Area Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
The listing
- Address. S of Parkdale, Parkdale, 97041
- When was it listed? March 1981
- Category. district
- Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings TR (AD); Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
- Census division. Parkdale
- National Register reference number. 81000485 - 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
71 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Cloud Cap-Tilly Jane Recreation Area Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11,446 acres in total. 14 started naturally. 1 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 | 39 |
| Natural | 14 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2019 | Natural | under an acre | Mt. Hood National Forest | COE |
| 7 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Mt. Hood National Forest | HOOD MEADOWS |
| 28 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Hood National Forest | LAKE |
| 27 September 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Hood National Forest | 654 |
| 26 September 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Hood National Forest | 759 |
| 23 September 2009 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Hood National Forest | POLALLIE |
| 20 September 2018 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Mt. Hood National Forest | ELK COVE |
| 20 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Mt. Hood National Forest | SLEEPER |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Cloud Cap-Tilly Jane Recreation Area Historic District: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Geothermal, Gold, Copper. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mt. Hood Fumarole | Geothermal | Occurrence | ||
| New Deal | Gold, Copper | Occurrence | Gold | |
| New Deal | Gold, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Basalt Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Evens Creek | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Evens Creek | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parkdale, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2009: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Parkdale | $2,000 | no account filed |
| January 2009 | Flood | Parkdale | - | Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoof caused very high water on several streams and creeks which resulted in water over highway 35 between Mount Hood Meadows and Parkdale. |
| December 2007 | Heavy Rain | Parkdale | - | Storm total precipitation was 3.57 inches. |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Cloud Cap Inn | 0.8 miles | 1974 |
 | Ries-Thompson House | 7.7 miles | 1992 |
 | Valley Theater | 7.7 miles | 1990 |
 | Parkdale Ranger Station | 7.8 miles | 1986 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 81000485 in Record Group 79. |
| Hood River County | All 36 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.