Photograph of Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals — Photograph by M.O. Stevens, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Richard and Helen Rice House

Built in 1996 (modern architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

From the record

“The Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals is a non-profit museum in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States. Located just north of the Sunset Highway on the northern edge of Hillsboro, the earth science museum is in the Portland metropolitan area.”
Wikipedia article Rice Northwest Museum of Rocks and Minerals, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · built in 1996, modern architecture.

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

The listing

Listed as. Rice, Richard and Helen, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 26385 N. W. Groveland Dr., Hillsboro, 97124
When was it listed? November 2006
Category. building
Census division. North Plains
When was it built? 1996
Architectural style. modern architecture
National Register reference number. 06001096 - 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

12 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Richard and Helen Rice House between 1992 and 2016, burning about 26 acres 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
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	3
Other causes	2
Smoking	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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 1992	Other causes	2.0 acres	Forest Grove District	MASON HILL #2
2 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Columbia City Unit	ROCKY PT RD#1
2 September 1992	Other causes	2.0 acres	Forest Grove District	MASON HILL #1
29 August 2016	Smoking	8.6 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	MASON HILL RD FIRE
26 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	ROCK CREEK BRUSH FIRE
15 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Forest Grove District	CORN PASS VAN FIRE
14 August 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Forest Grove District	MUNSON ROAD
26 July 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Forest Grove District	ROCK CREEK ROAD

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Richard and Helen Rice House: 6 past producers, 2 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, PGE, Aluminum, Iron, Titanium, Metal. 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
Bauxite Tualatin Mountains	Aluminum, Iron, Titanium, Metal	Occurrence
Hillsboro Platinum Occurrence	PGE	Occurrence
Tualatin Mountains Bauxite	Aluminum, Titanium, Iron	Prospect
Jackson Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Krueger Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Beet Bend Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Beet Bend Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Jackson Creek Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Krueger Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Rock Creek	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsboro, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 lightning, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2015	Funnel Cloud	Hillsboro	-	The NWS received several reports of a funnel cloud near Hillsboro in the afternoon, including one report from a county official.
August 1999	Lightning	Hillsboro	-	The last evening of convection in a very active three day period produced two strong cells that brought widespread lightning to the Portland and Hillsboro areas. More than 100 transformers were knocked out, causing power outages to 15000 Portland General Electric customers. The Westside MAX Light Rail line was out of service from 7 PM to 830 PM.
May 1998	Hail	Hillsboro	-	A small airplane pilot near Hillsboro reported brief quarter sized (one inch) hail at a little after 4 PM PST. The report was confirmed by a call to McMinnville Flight Service Station.

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Shute-Meierjurgen Farmstead	1.4 miles	2018
West Union Baptist Church	2.0 miles	1974
Manning-Kamna Farm	2.2 miles	2007
Old Scotch Church	2.2 miles	1974
Imbrie Farm	2.9 miles	1977
Harold Wass Ray House	3.3 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 06001096 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 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.