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Photograph of Cascade Locks Work Center
Photograph by Susan Marvin, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cascade Locks Work Center

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Cascade Locks Work Center, in Mount Hood National Forest near the town of Cascade Locks, Oregon, was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1936. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 for its architecture.”

Wikipedia article Cascade Locks Work Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Hood River County · listed in 1986 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Mt. Hood National Forest, Cascade Locks, 97014
  • When was it listed? April 1986
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Depression-Era Buildings Oregon and Washington TR
  • Census division. Cascade Locks
  • National Register reference number. 86000829 - 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

216 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 216 fires within 5 miles of Cascade Locks Work Center between 1992 and 2020, burning about 74,391 acres in total. 15 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
Recreation and ceremony55
Missing data/not specified/undetermined39
Equipment and vehicle use27
Debris and open burning22
Natural15
Fireworks13
Smoking12
Arson/incendiarism8
Railroad operations and maintenance8
Misuse of fire by a minor7
Other causes5
Power generation/transmission/distribution5

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 2003Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersFORT RAINS
8 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaLOWER PUNCH BOWL
8 September 2002Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Hood National ForestSMOKEY
7 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic Area2020
6 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDEL REY
6 September 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaOLD WYETH
5 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.5 acresColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaWYETH RANGE

Every fire recorded in Hood River County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of Cascade Locks Work Center: 16 past producers, 7 producers, 3 occurrences. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Geothermal, Aluminum. 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
StevensonAluminumOccurrence
StevensonPerliteOccurrence
StevensonDiatomiteOccurrence
Rock Creke Hot SpringGeothermalProducer
St. Martin Hot SpringsGeothermalProducer
Cascade Locks Pit and PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hamilton Mountain QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Island Rock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Keller PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Stevenson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Hood River County

Storms near this property

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cascade Locks, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2007: 1 wildfire, 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2007Heavy RainCascade Locks-A total accumulation of 2.22 inches was reported.
September 2003WildfireCascade Locks-no account filed

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

2 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
Clark Thompson House2.0 miles1989
Cascade Locks Marine Park2.6 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86000829 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hood River CountyAll 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.