Owyhee Grocery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.

From the record

One of 19 National Register listings published here for Malheur County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. 2499 OR-201, Nyssa, 97913
When was it listed? May 2025
Category. building
Census division. Owyhee
National Register reference number. 100011836 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

5 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Owyhee Grocery between 1995 and 2000, burning about 4,465 acres in total. 3 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
Natural	3
Debris and open burning	1
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
4 September 1995	Natural	2,221 acres	Boise District	D LINE
20 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27 acres	Vale District	MITCHELL B
11 August 1996	Natural	2,122 acres	Vale District	BROWN BUTT
4 July 1997	Debris and open burning	35 acres	Vale District	OVERSTREET
24 June 1999	Natural	60 acres	Vale District	EMERALD

Every fire recorded in Malheur County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Owyhee Grocery: 3 past producers, 2 producers, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold. 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	Recorded
Snake River Placers	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Owyhee Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Owyhee Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Rookstool Site	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rookstool Site	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Malheur County

Storms near this property

6 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nyssa, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1995 and 2024: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 flash flood. 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
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Nyssa	-	A microburst affected the city of Nyssa, bringing severe winds to the region with multiple impacts. The city of Nyssa was without power for several hours. Multiple powerlines & polls were down. Numerous residential and commercial roof damages were reported with roof damage and window breaks. There was also some crop damage and flattening in nearby fields.
July 1997	Hail	Nyssa	-	A thunderstorm produced 7/8 inch hail at Owyhee Dam in Malheur County.
May 2003	Thunderstorm Wind	Nyssa	-	no account filed
September 1997	Flash Flood	Nyssa	-	no account filed
May 1996	Heavy Rain	Nyssa	-	no account filed
April 1995	Thunderstorm Wind	Nyssa	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Malheur 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

4 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
Al and Son's Thompson Feed and Seed Company	6.4 miles	1996
Vinsonhaler Blacksmith Shop	6.4 miles	1996
Hotel Western	6.4 miles	1996
Green Lantern Saloon	6.4 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100011836 in Record Group 79.
Malheur County	All 19 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.