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Photograph of J. S. and Melinda Waggener Farmstead
Photograph by M.O. Stevens, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

JS and Melinda Waggener Farmstead

Built in 1885 (vernacular architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“S. and Melinda Waggener Farmstead is a farm located in Cornelius, Washington County, Oregon. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.”

Wikipedia article J. S. and Melinda Waggener Farmstead, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2003 · category: Building · built in 1885, vernacular architecture.

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 10 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Waggener, JS and Melinda, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 34680 SE Firdale Rd., Cornelius, 97113
  • When was it listed? July 2003
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Chehalem Mountains
  • When was it built? 1885
  • Architectural style. vernacular architecture
  • National Register reference number. 03000693 - 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

5 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of JS and Melinda Waggener Farmstead between 2001 and 2020, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Debris and open burning1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
20 August 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreForest Grove DistrictOLSON ROAD SQUIRREL
17 August 2010Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreForest Grove DistrictFLETT RD TRUCK FIRE
24 July 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreForest Grove DistrictNW GOODIN CREEK BURN
15 July 2020Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersADEA PILE
3 October 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersGOODIN CREEK FIRE

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of JS and Melinda Waggener Farmstead: 13 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Platinum. 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
HillsboroPlatinumOccurrenceStream Placer
Gaston/Person QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hergert QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
John MathewsStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Laurelwood QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Plant #2Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Gaston/Person QuarryStonePast Producer
John MathewsStonePast Producer
Laurel QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

1 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cornelius, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2008: 1 funnel cloud. 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
April 2008Funnel CloudCornelius-Reported a funnel cloud that did not touch down. Report was called in to a local media outlet.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Alvin T. Smith House5.2 miles1974
Albert S. Sholes House5.2 miles1982
John and Elsie Parsons House5.4 miles2005
Isaac Macrum House5.6 miles1998
Painter's Woods Historic District5.7 miles2009
James D. Robb House5.8 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 03000693 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 51 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.