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Flora School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Flora School, at 82744 Church St. in Flora, Oregon, is a historic Bungalow/craftsman-style former school building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Built in 1915, it was deemed significant for association with education and the community, and for its architecture.”

Wikipedia article Flora School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Wallowa County · listed in 1997 · 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. 82744 Church St., Flora, 97828
  • When was it listed? June 1997
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Enterprise
  • National Register reference number. 97000579 - 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Flora School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 334 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 1 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
Natural15
Debris and open burning13
Equipment and vehicle use5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Smoking2
Arson/incendiarism1
Recreation and ceremony1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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
6 September 2019Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersGWYNN
4 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.4 acresWallowa UnitANT
3 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use6.3 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersAIRPORT
2 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCENTURY LANE
13 September 2019Equipment and vehicle use249 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersTHATCH
11 September 1997Naturalunder an acreWallowa UnitHURRICANE SWITCHBACK
7 August 2008Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestKELSEY
6 August 2009Naturalunder an acreWallowa-Whitman National ForestMURRAY CREEK

Every fire recorded in Wallowa County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of Flora School: 19 past producers, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Limestone, General. 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
Black Marble Co.Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Black Marble QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer
Joseph Airport PitStonePast Producer
Mp 38.9 Hwy 11StonePast Producer
Mp 62 Wallowa-LakeStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Joseph Airport PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Wallowa County

Storms near this property

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Flora, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2012: 3 hail. 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
July 2012HailFlora-Winds gusting to 40 mph preceded the hail.
May 2009HailFlora-Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife reported nickel sized hail.
August 2006HailFlora-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Wallowa 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

6 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
Gotter Hotel1.5 miles1994
O.K. Theatre1.6 miles2012
Wallowa County Chieftain Building1.6 miles2012
Wallowa County Courthouse1.7 miles2000
Enterprise Mercantile and Milling Company Building1.7 miles2012
Enterprise IOOF Hall1.8 miles2012

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 97000579 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wallowa CountyAll 22 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.