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Photograph of College Hill West Historic District
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

College Hill West Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

“The College Hill West Historic District is a primarily residential neighborhood that is made up mostly of historic single-family homes and their associated garages. It is located in Corvallis, Oregon, United States near Oregon State University (OSU) and was primarily built between 1915 and 1945 with only 13% of residences built after.”

Wikipedia article College Hill West Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 2002 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Fires near this property

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of College Hill West Historic District between 1992 and 2018, burning about 126 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 burning12
Smoking6
Equipment and vehicle use3
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Recreation and ceremony3
Natural2
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Fireworks1
Other causes1

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
5 September 2014Misuse of fire by a minor86 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCHIP ROSS FIRE
28 September 1999Smokingunder an acrePhilomath UnitCHIP ROSS
25 September 2000Debris and open burningunder an acrePhilomath UnitOAK CREEK
2 September 2001Debris and open burningunder an acrePhilomath UnitOAK CREEK
2 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePhilomath UnitCRESENT VALLEY DR
16 September 2001Natural7.5 acresPhilomath UnitPOWER SKUNK FIRE
15 September 1994Missing data/not specified/undetermined8.0 acresPhilomath UnitNEWTON CREEK
1 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acrePhilomath UnitOAK CREEK

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of College Hill West Historic District: 25 past producers, 12 producers, 1 occurrence. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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
Ag-Lime PlantCalciumPast Producer
Transtion Metals CorpPlatinum, Gold, SilverOccurrence
Alder Creek PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Fisher Island PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Alder CreekStonePast Producer
Fisher Island PlantStonePast Producer
Wicks PitStonePast Producer
Clay MineClayPast Producer
Corvallis Brick & TileClayPast Producer
Corvallis Brick & Tile PitClayProducer

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this property

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corvallis, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. 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
July 2014LightningCorvallis$11,000Abundant lightning resulted in around 1000 PGE customers without power in the Albany and Corvallis area. A public caller reported that a large tree struck from lightning fell onto a home.
April 2019FloodCorvallis-The Willamette River near Corvallis crested at 32.8 feet around 9 AM on April 10th, which is 2.8 feet above flood stage.
June 2009Thunderstorm WindCorvallis-no account filed
January 2006FloodCorvallis-no account filed
April 2001Thunderstorm WindCorvallis-no account filed
May 1996Funnel CloudCorvallis-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton 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

6 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
John Bexell Houseunder 500 feet1992
Pi Beta Phi Sorority Houseunder 500 feet1982
J. Leo Fairbanks Houseunder 500 feet1985
Charles L. Schuster House0.1 miles1986
Oregon State University Historic District0.6 miles2021
Irish Bend Covered Bridge No. 141690.9 miles2013

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02000827 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benton CountyAll 56 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.