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Photograph of Grace Episcopal Church
Photograph by Steve Morgan, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Grace Episcopal Church and Rectory

Built in 1886 (Gothic Revival). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Grace Episcopal Church, also referred to as Grace Episcopal Church and Rectory in the context of historic preservation, is a church, historic church building, and accompanying parsonage, all located in Astoria, Oregon, United States.”

Wikipedia article Grace Episcopal Church (Astoria, Oregon), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Clatsop County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1886, Gothic Revival.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 1545 Franklin Ave., Astoria, 97103
  • When was it listed? September 1984
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Astoria
  • When was it built? 1886
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 84002957 - 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Grace Episcopal Church and Rectory between 1992 and 2019, burning about 8 acres in total. 3 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 ceremony21
Debris and open burning18
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined9
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Fireworks3
Natural3
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreAstoria DistrictJACK CREEK
6 September 2012Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersMITSCHER RD.
5 September 2014Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCUTTER
30 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAstoria DistrictFLORENCE #033
3 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersKLASKANIE TRAIL
24 September 1998Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreAstoria DistrictFLORENCE ST.
22 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreAstoria DistrictWILLIAMSPORT 2
22 September 1995Debris and open burningunder an acreAstoria DistrictMUDD ROAD

Every fire recorded in Clatsop County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Grace Episcopal Church and Rectory: 12 past producers, 5 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay, Stone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Endicott PitClayPast Producer
Sunset Quarry & MillStone, DimensionUnknown
Unnamed PitFlagstoneProducer
Astoria LandfillStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed PitStoneProducer
Astor House, Inc.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Astor House,IncSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Astoria LandfilleSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clatsop County

Storms near this property

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Astoria, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2016: 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2004LightningAstoria1 hurtno account filed
October 2016Thunderstorm WindAstoria-Strong thunderstorms produced gusts up to 58 mph, recorded at the ASOS at the Astoria Airport.
December 2007Heavy RainAstoria-Storm total precipitation was 3.94 inches, before the airport lost power.

Every storm recorded in Clatsop 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Grace Episcopal Church Rectory, Oldunder 500 feet1990
Captain George Conrad Flavel Houseunder 500 feet1986
John N. Griffin Houseunder 500 feet1984
Noonan-Norblad Houseunder 500 feet1988
Albert W. Ferguson House0.1 miles1984
Fort Astoria0.1 miles1966

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84002957 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clatsop CountyAll 56 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.