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Photograph of Moses and Mary Hart Stone House and Ranch Complex
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Moses and Mary Hart Stone House and Ranch Complex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Moses and Mary Hart Stone House and Ranch Complex, in Malheur County, Oregon near Westfall, is a historic property that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Also known as the Mose Hart Stone House, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.”

Wikipedia article Moses and Mary Hart Stone House and Ranch Complex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Malheur County · listed in 2001 · 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.
  • Listed as. Hart, Moses and Mary, Stone House and Ranch Complex - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 1 mi. W of Post Office on Bully Creek County Rd., Westfall, 97920
  • When was it listed? May 2001
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Brogan
  • Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 01000498 - 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

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Moses and Mary Hart Stone House and Ranch Complex between 1997 and 2016, burning about 91 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2

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
25 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined6.1 acresVale DistrictWESTFALL FIRE
2 August 2009Naturalunder an acreVale DistrictBULLY CREEK ROAD
7 July 2007Natural31 acresVale DistrictJIM LEE FIRE
3 July 2006Natural50 acresVale DistrictMESA FIRE
29 July 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresVale DistrictVALE RFPA 1
21 July 1997Natural2.0 acresVale DistrictBUCKBRUSH

Every fire recorded in Malheur County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Moses and Mary Hart Stone House and Ranch Complex: 7 past producers, 4 prospects, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Diatomite, Iron, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Westfall DepositDiatomite, SilicaPast Producer
BullyManganeseOccurrence
BullyManganeseProspect
Indian CreekStonePast Producer
Indian Creek Community PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Iron HillIronPast Producer1952
Iron HillIronProspect
La Rae No. 1IronOccurrence1956

Every working recorded in Malheur County

Storms near this property

6 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Westfall, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1997 and 2011: 2 flash flood, 2 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
October 1997Thunderstorm WindWestfall$800A downburst caused minor damage to a Westfall, Oregon homestead by ripping shingles off of a roof and peeling pieces of siding off of a barn.
January 2011FloodWestfall-Numerous roads from Harper and Westfall to Vale and Ontario were flooded when the Malheur River rose above flood stage and crested at 12.5 feet.
May 1998Flash FloodWestfall-A spotter reported 6 to 8 inches of mud on the Harper-Westfall Road north of Harper, evidence of a flash flood.
June 1997Flash FloodWestfall-A slow moving thunderstorm dumped heavy rain near the town of Westfall, Oregon. This caused a flash flood which left debris and mud on Bully Creek Road, normally dry washes flowing with water and a flooded barn. A power failure was also reported.
June 2006HailWestfall-no account filed
June 2004HailWestfall-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Malheur 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 01000498 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Malheur CountyAll 19 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.