Dundee Lodge

Built in 1921 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Dundee Lodge is a farm with several buildings built in the 1920s located near Gaston in the U.S. state of Oregon. The rustic property in rural Washington County was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.”
Wikipedia article Dundee Lodge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1921, rustic architecture.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Rt. 1, Box 311, Gaston, 97119
When was it listed? June 1985
Category. building
Census division. Coast Range
When was it built? 1921
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 85001186 - 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Dundee Lodge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 204 acres in total. 7 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
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	7
Recreation and ceremony	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	126 acres	Forest Grove Unit	POWERLINE ROAD MUTUAL AID
29 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Forest Grove District	SOUTH ROAD FIRE
25 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Forest Grove District	NELSON COVE
24 September 2007	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Forest Grove District	GOODIN CREEK FIRE #2
24 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.2 acres	Forest Grove District	PLEASANT SMITH BARN FIRE
22 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	2.3 acres	Forest Grove District	SECTION 2 FIRE
20 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Forest Grove District	NO NAME ROAD SLASH
19 September 2020	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	NL210 RD POSITIVE STRIKE

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Dundee Lodge: 10 past producers, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Carpenter Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Laurelwood Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Scoggins Dam Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Carpenter Creek Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Oregon State Highway Division	Stone	Past Producer
Oregon State Highway Division	Stone	Past Producer
Persons Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

5 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gaston, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2007 and 2023: 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Gaston	$3,000	Straight line winds from a thunderstorm blew off a roof from an outbuilding at Ananda Laurelwood Retreat near Gaston.
March 2023	Funnel Cloud	Gaston	-	Picture showing what appears to be a narrow funnel cloud near Bald Peak Road in Washington County.
March 2023	Hail	Gaston	-	Hail size of 0.75 inch was estimated from picture posted on social media.
January 2021	Flood	Gaston	-	The Tualatin River at Dilley (DLLO3) rose above flood stage at 2330PST on the 12th, crested at 18.09 feet, then fell below flood stage at 0330PST on the 14th. Flood stage is 17.5 feet.
December 2007	Heavy Rain	Gaston	-	Storm total precipitation was 7.65 inches.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Alvin T. Smith House	5.6 miles	1974
C.W. Mertz Rental House #2	5.7 miles	2005
Isaac Macrum House	5.7 miles	1998
Painter's Woods Historic District	5.8 miles	2009
Clark Historic District	5.8 miles	2002
First Church of Christ Scientist	5.9 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85001186 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 51 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.