Nerdrum-Conrad House

Built in 1912. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Coos County · listed in 2004 · category: Building · built in 1912.

Sources: 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. Nerdrum--Conrad House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 979 S. Fifth St., Coos Bay, 97420
When was it listed? June 2004
Category. building
Census division. Coos Bay
When was it built? 1912
National Register reference number. 04000616 - 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

178 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 178 fires within 5 miles of Nerdrum-Conrad House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 3 were 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	48
Recreation and ceremony	27
Smoking	26
Misuse of fire by a minor	23
Equipment and vehicle use	20
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	14
Fireworks	8
Natural	6
Arson/incendiarism	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	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
9 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Coos Forest Protective Association	NORTH SPIT
8 September 2020	Smoking	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	LIBBY LANE
8 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	GRINNELL LANE
7 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	SECOND CREEK
6 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	IDA LANE
5 September 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Coos Forest Protective Association	SHINGLEHOUSE SLOUGH
4 September 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Coos Forest Protective Association	NOAH BUTTE
3 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Coos Forest Protective Association	E. CATCHING SLOUGH ROAD

Every fire recorded in Coos County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Nerdrum-Conrad House: 13 past producers, 10 producers, 7 occurrences, 1 unknown. 10 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Chromium, Silica, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Parker Magnet Process	Chromium, Iron	Occurrence
Parker Magnetic Process	Chromium, Iron	Unknown
Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Main Quarry and Plant	Stone	Past Producer
Main Quarry and Plant	Stone	Past Producer
Pigeon Point	Silica	Occurrence
Pigeon Point	Silica, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Unnamed Pit	Clay	Producer
Burch	Chromium	Occurrence
Burch Deposits	Chromium	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Coos County

Storms near this property

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coos Bay, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 1 heavy rain, 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
January 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Coos Bay	-	A spotter 2SSE Coos Bay reported that a wind gust estimated at 70-75 mph blew off shingles and caused widespread tree damage. Power lines were damaged by the winds and trees, and 13000 people were without power at one point. Time of the wind event was estimated.
March 1998	Heavy Rain	Coos Bay	-	3.55 inches rainfall in 24 hrs.

Every storm recorded in Coos 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Hjalte Nerdrum House	under 500 feet	1993
Marshfield I.O.O.F. Cemetery	0.3 miles	2012
Captain Bror W. Olsson House	0.4 miles	1986
Egyptian Theatre	0.6 miles	2010
Myrtle Arms Apartment Building	0.6 miles	1985
Marshfield Elks Temple	0.7 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 04000616 in Record Group 79.
Coos County	All 40 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.