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Deschutes County, Oregon

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

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45historic places

—earliest paper

1917formed

198,253pop. 2020

12cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 45 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1978. Most listings are in or near Bend, Redmond, Sisters.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

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National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

26 of 45 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

45 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bend Amateur Atheletic Club Gymnasium	Bend	Building	1983
Bend High School	Bend	Building	1993
Bend Skyliners Lodge	Bend	Building	1978
Boyd, Charles, Homestead Group	Bend	Building	1982
Byberg, Peter, House	Bend	Building	1998
Central Oregon Canal Historic District (Ward Road-Gosney Road Segment)	Bend	District	2019
Congress Apartments	Bend	Building	2000
Deedon, Ed and Genevieve, Homestead	La Pine	Building	2013
Deschutes County Library	Bend	Building	1993
Downing Building	Bend	Building	2004
Drake Park Neighborhood Historic District	Bend	District	2005
Elk Lake Guard Station	Bend	Building	2009
First Presbyterian Church of Redmond	Redmond	Building	2001
Gerking, Jonathan N.B., Homestead	Bend	Building	1999
Goodwillie-Allen House	Bend	Building	2007
Hamilton, Benjamin, House	Bend	Building	2000
Hope-Van Allen House	Bend	Building	2001
I.O.O.F. Organization Camp, Paulina Lake	LaPine	District	1983
Jones, Simpson E., House	Bend	Building	2000
McCann, Thomas, House	Bend	Building	1980
Moore, Robert D., House	Bend	Building	1999
New Redmond Hotel	Redmond	Building	1980
New Taggart Hotel	Bend	Building	1988
O'Kane Building	Bend	Building	1986
Odem, Milton, House	Redmond	Building	1997
Old Town Historic District	Bend	District	2001
Old US Post Office	Bend	Building	1985
Paulina Lake Guard Station	Bend	Building	1986
Petersen Rock Garden	Redmond	District	2013
Pictograph Site	Brothers	Site	2009
Pilot Butte Canal Historic District	Bend	District	2016
Pilot Butte Canal: Downtown Redmond Segment Historic District	Redmond	District	2017
Putnam, George Palmer and Dorothy Binney House	Bend	Building	1998
Redmond Downtown Historic District	Redmond	District	2017
Reid School	Bend	Building	1979
Rock O' the Range Bridge	Bend	Structure	1979
Sather, Evan Andreas, House	Bend	Building	1997
Sisters High School	Sisters	Building	2006
Smith, N. P., Pioneer Hardware Store	Bend	Building	1984
Sphier, D.H., Building	Bend	Building	2020
Stover, B. A. and Ruth, House	Bend	Building	1992
Swanson, Norman and Frances, House	Redmond	Building	2022
Trinity Episcopal Church	Bend	Building	1993
Wienecke, Emil and Ottilie, House	Bend	Building	2008
Wilson, William T.E., Homestead	Sisters	District	1998

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Deschutes was formed in 1917 (1917-02-01) from Crook.

DESCHUTES created from CROOK.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Deschutes County population from 1920 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
9,622	18,631	21,812	23,100	62,142	115,367	198,253

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

12 cemeteries and 3 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 12 of 12 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Billy Quinn Grave	43.78261	-121.83752
Breese Cemetery	43.72652	-121.43876
Deschutes Memorial Gardens	44.11817	-121.29169
Greenwood Cemetery	44.05678	-121.28779
Harper Cemetery	43.85721	-121.44582
Improved Order of Redmen Cemetery	43.67484	-121.45723
Masten Cemetery	43.63595	-121.58723
Pilot Butte Cemetery	44.0542	-121.28857
Redmond Cemetery	44.24487	-121.20396
Sisters Cemetery	44.32289	-121.51503
Terrebonne Cemetery	44.34838	-121.15014
Tumalo Cemetery	44.1664	-121.32288

Historical populated places — 3 of 3

Name	Lat	Lon
Cline Falls	44.27429	-121.25948
Imperial	43.74708	-120.44277
Lower Bridge	44.35984	-121.29365

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

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