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Photograph of Children's Farm Home School
Photograph by 46percent, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Children's Farm Home School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Children's Farm Home School is a former school building on U.S. Route 20 in Oregon between Corvallis and Albany; it is located on a 300-acre (120 ha) campus now owned by Trillium Family Services.”

Wikipedia article Children's Farm Home School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 2008 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 4455 US 20 NE., Corvallis, 97330
  • When was it listed? March 2008
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Corvallis
  • Architectural style. Georgian architecture
  • National Register reference number. 08000254 - 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Children's Farm Home School between 1992 and 2018, burning about 112 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony5
Smoking4
Debris and open burning4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Natural2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
9 September 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSULPHUR SOAP
5 September 2014Misuse of fire by a minor86 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersCHIP ROSS FIRE
28 September 2002Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePhilomath UnitRIVENDALE LANE FIRE
28 September 1999Smokingunder an acrePhilomath UnitCHIP ROSS
2 September 1997Equipment and vehicle useunder an acrePhilomath UnitCRESENT VALLEY DR
12 September 2000Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acrePhilomath UnitMT. VIEW DRIVE
6 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acrePhilomath UnitLEWISBERG AVE
6 August 1998Debris and open burningunder an acrePhilomath UnitARMSTRONG DRIVE

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 43 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 43 workings within 5 miles of Children's Farm Home School: 29 past producers, 13 producers, 1 unknown. 13 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
Fisher Island PlantStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Porcupine MineGoldPast Producer
Fisher Island PlantStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Unnamed OperationStoneUnknown
Clay MineClayPast Producer
Corvallis Brick & TileClayPast Producer
Corvallis Brick & Tile PitClayProducer
Corvallis Brick & Tile WorksClayPast Producer

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
Lewisburg Hall and Warehouse Company Building1.9 miles1991
Dr. Ralph Lyman Bosworth House3.2 miles1981
Camp Arboretum Sign Shop3.3 miles2008
Hannah and Eliza Gorman House3.4 miles2015
Jesse H. Caton House3.5 miles1979
Hadley-Locke House3.5 miles1981

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08000254 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.