Parkdale Ranger Station

Built in 1939. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Hood River County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1939.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 8 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Mt. Hood National Forest, Parkdale, 97041
When was it listed? April 1986
Category. building
Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
Census division. Parkdale
When was it built? 1939
National Register reference number. 86000822 - 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

86 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Parkdale Ranger Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 136 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 6 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	23
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Recreation and ceremony	17
Natural	8
Smoking	7
Arson/incendiarism	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Fireworks	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
9 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	The Dalles Unit	MILLER RD
8 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	The Dalles Unit	CAT CREEK
7 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	The Dalles Unit	BAILEY RD
7 September 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	The Dalles Unit	N17 FIRE
5 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	KLINGER
4 September 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	YELLOW JACKET CREEK
4 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	The Dalles Unit	TROUT CREEK RIDGE
30 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	The Dalles Unit	1700 620 ROAD

Every fire recorded in Hood River 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 Parkdale Ranger Station: 8 past producers, 6 producers. 6 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Trout Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Trout Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dee Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lava Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Smullen Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Dee	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hood River County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Parkdale, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2009: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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
May 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Parkdale	$2,000	no account filed
January 2009	Flood	Parkdale	-	Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoof caused very high water on several streams and creeks which resulted in water over highway 35 between Mount Hood Meadows and Parkdale.
December 2007	Heavy Rain	Parkdale	-	Storm total precipitation was 3.57 inches.

Every storm recorded in Hood River 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

5 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
Valley Theater	0.2 miles	1990
Ries-Thompson House	0.3 miles	1992
Mt. Hood School House	1.8 miles	1987
Mt. Hood Railroad Linear Historic District	6.7 miles	1994
Cloud Cap-Tilly Jane Recreation Area Historic District	7.8 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86000822 in Record Group 79.
Hood River County	All 36 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.