Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“The Masonic Temple in Pendleton, Oregon is a historic building constructed in 1887. It was originally built as a meeting hall for Pendleton Lodge, with commercial space on the ground floor to help offset the cost of maintaining the meeting hall.”
Wikipedia article Masonic Temple (Pendleton, Oregon), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 43 National Register listings published here for Umatilla County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.82003751- 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
115 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 115 fires within 5 miles of Masonic Temple
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,314 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning
24
Equipment and vehicle use
21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
17
Power generation/transmission/distribution
13
Railroad operations and maintenance
12
Arson/incendiarism
8
Recreation and ceremony
6
Smoking
5
Fireworks
4
Natural
3
Other causes
2
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
34 workings within 5 miles of Masonic Temple: 29 past producers, 5 producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Pendleton, the town this property stands in, in 27 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 15 thunderstorm wind, 3 lightning, 3 funnel cloud, 3 hail.
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.
A combination of high flows from rain and snow melt coming out of the Blue Mountains and record releases out of McKay Reservoir produced field and roadside flooding downstream of Pendleton through Echo, Hermiston and Umatilla. A footbridge at Umatilla was damaged by the high flows and erosion.
Thunderstorm winds toppled an old concrete and wood wall in Pendleton, crushing several cars under the falling debris. Tall trees were also blown down in SE Pendleton.
An area of vigorous thunderstorms hit the Pendleton area in mid-afternoon. Trees were blown down and visibility at the airport was reduced to one-quarter mile in blowing dust by winds gusting to 55 mph.
Steady rain fell all day and washed mud and other debris on several city streets. Both Coombs Canyon and Adams Roads were briefly closed as maintenance crews unplugged some drains. This rain, which totaled 0.93 inches at the Pendleton Airport, also washed out a section of Wildhorse Road near Weston.
Lightning struck the attic of a residence and blew out the power and sent sheetrock flying off the walls downstairs. The lightning also struck a bathroom vent on the neighbor's house.
A small funnel cloud that descended a couple hundred feet from a thunderstorm was observed from the National Weather Service forecast office by an off duty forecaster. This funnel lasted for around 15 seconds.
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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