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Photograph of Greasewood Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Greasewood Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Greasewood Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church is a historic pioneer church located 5 miles west of Adams, Oregon, United States. Volunteers built it on donated land in 1884 to serve the immigrant Finnish Laestadian community.”

Wikipedia article Greasewood Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Umatilla County · listed in 1988 · 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. Finn Rd. at Finland Cemetery Rd., Adams, 97810
  • When was it listed? July 1988
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Pendleton
  • National Register reference number. 88001041 - 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

10 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Greasewood Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church between 1995 and 2014, burning about 8,491 acres in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3

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
8 September 2014Equipment and vehicle use40 acresUmatilla AgencyBLAKELY
7 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undetermined8,212 acresWallowa-Whitman National ForestCACTUS MOUNTAIN
3 September 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreUmatilla AgencyUNION PACIFIC
2 September 2001Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresUmatilla AgencyMP 214
11 September 2002Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresUmatilla AgencyWILDHORSE
9 August 2003Equipment and vehicle use10 acresUmatilla AgencyROTHROCK R
10 August 2004Equipment and vehicle use73 acresUmatilla AgencyLENTIL
1 August 1995Equipment and vehicle use2.0 acresUmatilla AgencyROTHROCK

Every fire recorded in Umatilla County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Greasewood Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church: 2 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
MccormmachStonePast Producer
Mccormmach PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
HavannaSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Havanna PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Umatilla County

Storms near this property

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adams, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2009HailAdams-Penny to nickel sized hail covered ground on Highway 11 at milepost 14.
May 2008Funnel CloudAdams-NWS employee observed a funnel cloud that was 3/4 of the way to the ground just northeast of Adams.
May 2020Thunderstorm WindAdams-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Umatilla 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
Adams Odd Fellows Hall4.9 miles1994
Reese and Redman General Merchandise Store4.9 miles1994

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 88001041 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Umatilla CountyAll 43 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.