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One of 11 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 2011 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
John and Carolena Heimuller Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Heimuller, John and Carolena, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 32600 SW J.O. West Rd, Scappoose, 97056
- When was it listed? February 2011
- Category. building
- Census division. Scappoose
- National Register reference number. 11000049 - 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
61 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of John and Carolena Heimuller Farmstead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 5 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 | 15 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 9 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | PISGAH HOME RD. #1 |
| 8 September 2004 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Forest Grove District | DIXIE MTN CAR FIRE |
| 8 September 1992 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Columbia City Unit | ROCKY POINT |
| 6 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Columbia City Unit | J P WEST RD. |
| 4 September 2013 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | OTTO MILLER ROAD #1 |
| 28 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Columbia City Unit | TURLEY ROAD #1 |
| 27 September 2009 | Other causes | under an acre | Columbia City Unit | HOLADAY RD. #1 |
| 27 September 2005 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Columbia City Unit | RABINSKI ROAD #1 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 42 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 42 workings within 5 miles of John and Carolena Heimuller Farmstead: 23 past producers, 9 producers, 8 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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 Scapoose - St Helens | Titanium, Metal, Aluminum, Iron | Occurrence | Limonite | |
| Bonser Prospect | Aluminum, Iron | Occurrence | Bauxite | |
| Scapoose-St. Helens Bauxite | Aluminum, Titanium, Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Scappoose Iron | Iron, Mineral Pigments | Producer | Limonite | |
| Nelson | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Nelson | Clay | Unknown | ||
| Bonser Prospect | Aluminum, Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Oester | Aluminum, Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Colport Charcoal Iron | Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Scappoose Coal Prospect | Iron | Unknown |
Storms near this property
2 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scappoose, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2018: 1 heavy rain, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Scappoose | - | A viewer sent in a photo to a local news station of a funnel cloud over the Multnomah Channel, observed around 11 AM. |
| December 2007 | Heavy Rain | Scappoose | - | Storm total precipitation was 5.97 inches. |
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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | United States Post Office (Scappoose) | 0.9 miles | 2017 |
 | James Grant Watts House | 1.0 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 11000049 in Record Group 79. |
| Columbia County | All 11 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.