BlockFrom the record
One of 92 National Register listings published here for Ravalli County · listed in 1989 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Popham Ranch
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
The listing
- Address. 460 N.E. Popham Ln., Corvallis, 59828
- When was it listed? January 1989
- Category. building
- Census division. Hamilton
- Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
- National Register reference number. 88003141 - 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
15 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Popham Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 47 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | RavaIIi County | CFD - CFS2008-0630 |
| 2 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | RavaIIi County | VFD - CFS2007-0126 |
| 26 June 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | RavaIIi County | CFD - CFS2006-2586 |
| 13 June 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | not named |
| 19 May 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Bitterroot National Forest | not named |
| 13 May 2006 | Recreation and ceremony | 3.0 acres | Bitterroot National Forest | JENKINS |
| 8 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | RavaIIi County | VFD - CFS2004-0565 |
| 21 April 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | RavaIIi County | CFD - CFS2004-1534 |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Popham Ranch: 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Donaldson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Corvallis Pumicite | Pumice | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Location | Pumice | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
5 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corvallis, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 2010 and 2024: 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2010 | Lightning | Corvallis | $250,000 | A home near Corvallis was hit by lightning and burned. |
| September 2024 | Thunderstorm Wind | Corvallis | - | Gusty outflow occurred throughout the Bitterroot Valley but a localized area from just south of Corvallis to near Quast Lane experienced damaging winds. A few downed trees and numerous downed branches were noted. A peak gusts of 63 mph occurred at Soft Rock RAWS which was supported by radar velocities with 2000-3000 customers losing power. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Corvallis | - | A member of the public reported 1 inch hail near Corvalis. |
| February 2014 | Flood | Corvallis | - | The combination of anomalous warmth with temperatures approaching 50 degrees F, rain and rapid snow-melt on frozen ground, caused lowland flooding across the Bitterroot Valley. Just before noon on Feb. 12, a National Weather Service employee reported water covering up to three-quarters of US-93 just south of Florence. They also reported ponding of water at the Florence IGA store parking lot and fire hall. More flooding was reported on Feb. 13 and the Ravalli County EM reported that home owners in Victor and Corvallis had already experienced ponding of water around their homes and water running down the streets in Victor. At least one homeowner did experience water in their basement. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Corvallis | - | The public estimated 1 inch hail 7 miles northeast of Corvallis. |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Summers-Quast Farmstead | 1.6 miles | 1997 |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church South | 2.3 miles | 1997 |
 | Brooks Hotel | 2.5 miles | 1980 |
 | Martin Cramer House | 5.5 miles | 1987 |
 | Riverside | 6.0 miles | 1987 |
 | Etna School | 6.0 miles | 1997 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88003141 in Record Group 79. |
| Ravalli County | All 92 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.