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Photograph of Deep River Pioneer Lutheran Church
Photograph by Ian Poellet ( User:Werewombat ), CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Deep River Pioneer Lutheran Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Deep River Pioneer Lutheran Church is a historic Gothic Revival style church in Deep River, Washington. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.”

Wikipedia article Deep River Pioneer Lutheran Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for Wahkiakum County · listed in 1974 · 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. N of Deep River, Deep River, 98638
  • When was it listed? August 1974
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Grays River
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 74001983 - 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Deep River Pioneer Lutheran Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 12 acres in total. 3 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
Debris and open burning8
Recreation and ceremony4
Natural3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Other causes1
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1

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
8 September 2011Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPOWERLINE FIRE
29 September 2019Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSALMON CREEK
29 September 2019Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSALMON CREEK 5000
27 September 2000Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDEEP RIVER
3 August 2002Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
27 August 1994Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 August 1996Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Every fire recorded in Wahkiakum County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Deep River Pioneer Lutheran Church: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Johnson QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Lane Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
O'Conner Creek QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Wahkiakum County

Storms near this property

1 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Deep River, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2009: 1 heavy rain. 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
January 2009Heavy RainDeep River-Heavy rain caused flooding across highway 4, resulting in the closure of highway 4 west of Rosburg.

Every storm recorded in Wahkiakum 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Grays River Covered Bridge4.9 miles1971
Columbia River Gillnet Boat6.6 miles1978

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74001983 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wahkiakum CountyAll 6 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.