Photograph of Original Wasco County Courthouse — Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

First Wasco County Courthouse

Built in 1859 (Federal architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Original Wasco County Courthouse is a historic former courthouse, located in The Dalles, Oregon, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places under the name First Wasco County Courthouse, and is also listed as a contributing resource in the National Register-listed Trevitt's Addition Historic District.”
Wikipedia article Original Wasco County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Wasco County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1859, Federal architecture.

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. 410 W. Second Pl., The Dallas, 97058
When was it listed? March 1998
Category. building
Census division. The Dalles
When was it built? 1859
Architectural style. Federal architecture, vernacular architecture
National Register reference number. 98000260 - 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

102 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 102 fires within 5 miles of First Wasco County Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 84,550 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	33
Debris and open burning	16
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Fireworks	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Smoking	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Other causes	4
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	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 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14 acres	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	SHOOTING RANGE
9 September 1999	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	RIVER RD
6 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	GOLF COURSE
30 September 1995	Smoking	under an acre	The Dalles Unit	BROWNS CREEK
30 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	The Dalles Unit	CHENOWITH CREEK
3 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BROWNS CREEK
29 September 1992	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	The Dalles Unit	MILL CREEK #2
22 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DOUGS BEACH

Every fire recorded in Wasco County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 49 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 49 workings within 5 miles of First Wasco County Courthouse: 28 past producers, 20 producers, 1 plant. 21 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
(Facility) the Dalles Aluminum Smelter	Aluminum, Contained or Metal	Plant
Douthit Pit	Clay	Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Foley Lakes	Stone	Past Producer
Foley Lakes Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Harvey	Stone	Past Producer
Harvey Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Harvey Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Harvey Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Martin	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wasco 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church	under 500 feet	1974
Trevitt's Addition Historic District	0.1 miles	1995
John L. Thompson House	0.1 miles	1980
Edward French House	0.2 miles	1992
US Post Office	0.2 miles	1985
Rock Fort Campsite	0.2 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000260 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wasco County	All 31 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.