Photograph of Canyonville United Methodist Church — Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Canyonville Methodist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“Canyonville Methodist Church is a historic church at 2nd and Pine Streets in Canyonville, Oregon. It was built in 1868, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.”
Wikipedia article Canyonville Methodist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 2nd and Pine Sts., Canyonville, 97417
When was it listed? April 1984
Category. building
Census division. Myrtle Creek-Riddle
Architectural style. Neoclassicism
National Register reference number. 84002983 - 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

129 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 129 fires within 5 miles of Canyonville Methodist Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 13,255 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 4 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
Natural	30
Equipment and vehicle use	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27
Debris and open burning	14
Recreation and ceremony	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	4
Other causes	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	2

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
6 September 1992	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Douglas Forest Protective Association	KOKOS LANE
23 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	801 TILLER TRAIL
22 September 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	THOMPSON RD.
19 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	ROD & GUN CLUB ROAD
17 September 2017	Natural	under an acre	Roseburg District	ARNOLD ST
17 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Roseburg District	AKER DRIVE
12 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Roseburg District	PRUNER RD
12 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	CANYON HILLS

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Canyonville Methodist Church: 14 past producers, 6 producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Mercury, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Beaver Spring	Silver, Gold, Copper, Zinc	Occurrence	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Beaver Spring	Copper, Zinc, Gold, Silver	Prospect
Levan's Ledge	Gold, Copper, Silver	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Gold, Pyrite
Levans Ledge Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Sweetbriar	Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Malachite, Pyrite
Fristoe	Iron	Past Producer
Fristoe	Iron	Past Producer
Huckelberry Mine	Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Huckleberry Mine	Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Pyrite
Koko Lane Shale Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Will Q. Brown House and Wash House	4.5 miles	1987
Weaver-Worthington Farmstead	4.6 miles	1984
Rice Brothers and Adams Building	6.8 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84002983 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas County	All 47 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.