Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“Macksburg Lutheran Church is a historic Lutheran church located in Canby, Oregon, United States. The church was built between 1892 and 1894, in order to serve the needs of German-speaking immigrants from Germany and Austria.”
Wikipedia article Macksburg Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 93 National Register listings published here for Clackamas County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82003722- 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
36 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Macksburg Lutheran Church
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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
16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Arson/incendiarism
3
Recreation and ceremony
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Other causes
1
Smoking
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
33 workings within 5 miles of Macksburg Lutheran Church: 23 past producers, 10 producers.
10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Canby, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 5 flood, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud.
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.
Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoff caused the Pudding River at Aurora to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Pudding River crested at 27.8 feet on January 20th at 12 pm PST, 5.8 feet above flood stage.
A tornado was spotted by several residents of Canby at 445 PM PDT south of Highway 99 off Barlow Road. The tornado did very minor damage to the home at 25170 S. Barlow Road, and did minor damage to a barn nearby that was being demolished. Five trees were blown over.
Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoff caused the Pudding River at Aurora to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Pudding River crested at 23.0 feet on March 18th at 3 am PST, 1.0 feet above flood stage.
Heavy rain caused the Pudding River at Aurora to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Pudding River crested at 23.8 feet on April 1st at 8 pm PST, 1.8 feet above flood stage.
Heavy rain caused the Pudding River at Aurora to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Pudding River crested at 23.6 feet on January 22th at 10 pm PST, 1.6 feet above flood stage.
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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