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Photograph of Columbia Southern Railway Passenger Station and Freight Warehouse
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Columbia Southern Railroad Passenger Station and Freight Warehouse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“The Columbia Southern Railway Passenger Station and Freight Warehouse is a historic train station at the intersection of Clark and Fulton Streets in Wasco, Oregon. The station was built in 1898 by the Columbia Southern Railway as part of a new line connecting inland Oregon to the Columbia River.”

Wikipedia article Wasco station (Oregon), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Sherman County · listed in 1991 · 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. Jct. of Clark and Fulton Sts., Wasco, 97065
  • When was it listed? February 1991
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Wasco
  • National Register reference number. 91000059 - 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

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Columbia Southern Railroad Passenger Station and Freight Warehouse in 2007, burning about 15,591 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 August 2007Missing data/not specified/undetermined15,591 acresPrineville District0621

Every fire recorded in Sherman County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Columbia Southern Railroad Passenger Station and Freight Warehouse: 4 past producers, 4 producers. 4 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
China HollowSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
China HollowSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Spanish Hollow CreekStonePast Producer
Spanish Hollow Creek PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Van Guilder QuarryStonePast Producer
Van Guilder QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Sherman 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

1 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
DeMoss Springs Park5.5 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 91000059 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sherman CountyAll 4 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.