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One of 51 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 2018 · category: Building · built in 1890, Queen Anne style.
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Shute-Meierjurgen Farmstead
Built in 1890 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 4825 NE Starr Blvd., Hillsboro, 97124
- When was it listed? July 2018
- Category. building
- Census division. Beaverton-Hillsboro
- When was it built? 1890
- Architectural style. Queen Anne style
- National Register reference number. 100002647 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
3 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Shute-Meierjurgen Farmstead between 2000 and 2015, burning about 2 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Columbia City Unit | ROCKY PT RD#1 |
| 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 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Shute-Meierjurgen Farmstead: 6 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 producers, 1 prospect. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Platinum, PGE. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bauxite Tualatin Mountains | Aluminum, Iron, Titanium, Metal | Occurrence | ||
| Hillsboro | Platinum | Occurrence | Stream Placer | |
| 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 |
Storms near this property
3 since 1998Regional 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. |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Richard and Helen Rice House | 1.4 miles | 2006 |
 | Imbrie Farm | 1.8 miles | 1977 |
 | Harold Wass Ray House | 1.8 miles | 1994 |
 | West Union Baptist Church | 2.0 miles | 1974 |
 | Manning-Kamna Farm | 2.1 miles | 2007 |
 | Malcolm McDonald House | 2.5 miles | 2015 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002647 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.