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One of 36 National Register listings published here for Hood River County · listed in 1990 · category: Building · built in 1937.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Valley Theater
Built in 1937. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 4945 Baseline Rd., Parkdale, 97041
- When was it listed? June 1990
- Category. building
- Census division. Parkdale
- When was it built? 1937
- National Register reference number. 90000842 - 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 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 86 fires within 5 miles of Valley Theater between 1992 and 2020, burning about 116 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 5 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 | 24 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 18 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 18 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Smoking | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Other causes | 1 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Valley Theater: 9 past producers, 5 producers. 5 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trout Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Trout Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Basalt Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Basalt Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Dee | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Dee Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Lava | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Lava Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Smullen Quarry | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 1998Regional 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. |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Ries-Thompson House | under 500 feet | 1992 |
 | Parkdale Ranger Station | 0.2 miles | 1986 |
 | Mt. Hood School House | 1.9 miles | 1987 |
 | Mt. Hood Railroad Linear Historic District | 6.7 miles | 1994 |
 | Cloud Cap-Tilly Jane Recreation Area Historic District | 7.7 miles | 1981 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 90000842 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.