Sherman County Courthouse

Built in 1899 (Queen Anne style architecture in the United States). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Sherman County Courthouse is a Queen Anne-style building located in Moro, Oregon listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”
Wikipedia article Sherman County Courthouse (Oregon), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Sherman County · listed in 1998 · category: Building · built in 1899, Queen Anne style architecture in the United States.

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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 500 Court Street, Moro, 97029
When was it listed? August 1998
Category. building
Census division. Moro
When was it built? 1899
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 98001122 - 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

4 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Sherman County Courthouse between 2000 and 2017, burning about 2,693 acres in total. 2 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
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
30 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	300 acres	Prineville District	1051
23 August 2000	Natural	258 acres	Prineville District	BUCKSKIN
23 August 2000	Natural	2,080 acres	Prineville District	DIPPINGVAT
22 July 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	55 acres	Prineville District	0447

Every fire recorded in Sherman County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Sherman County Courthouse: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Lone Rock	Stone	Past Producer
Lone Rock Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Mp 24 Sherman Hwy	Stone	Past Producer
Mp 24 Sherman Hwy	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Sherman County

Storms near this property

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moro, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2013	Hail	Moro	-	no account filed

Every storm 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

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	John and Helen Moore House	2.9 miles	1994
	DeMoss Springs Park	7.8 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98001122 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sherman County	All 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.
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.