DeGuire-Ludowitzki House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

One of 120 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 2015 · 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.
Address. 840 Water St., Silverton, 97381
When was it listed? March 2015
Category. building
Also known as. Silverton, Oregon, and Its Environs MPS
Census division. Silverton
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 15000053 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of DeGuire-Ludowitzki House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 92 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
Debris and open burning	27
Equipment and vehicle use	13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	11
Other causes	5
Smoking	2
Fireworks	2
Natural	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	1
Arson/incendiarism	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 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Santiam Unit	DAVIS CREEK
7 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Santiam Unit	213 GRASS
6 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Santiam Unit	VICTOR BARREL
6 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Santiam Unit	VICTOR POINT RD. #1.
4 September 2014	Other causes	1.0 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	LAURIE LANE
3 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Santiam Unit	VICTOR POINT #2
3 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Molalla Unit	ENDRESON
26 September 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	DAVIS CREEK GRASS

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of DeGuire-Ludowitzki House: 9 past producers, 9 producers, 5 occurrences. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Abiqua Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Abiqua Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pembroke/Silverton Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pembroke/Silverton Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Clay Occurrence #1	Clay	Occurrence
Clay Occurrence #2	Clay	Occurrence
Fall Creek Ranch Deposit	Clay	Occurrence
Victor Point Locality No. 19	Clay	Occurrence
Victor Point Locality No. 20	Clay	Occurrence
Davis Creek	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this property

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silverton, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 tornado. 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 1998	Tornado (F0)	Silverton	-	A Silverton Police Officer reported seeing a tornado touch down near Silverton between 330 and 345 PM. No damages or injuries were reported.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Magnus and Emma Ek House	0.3 miles	2013
Calvary Lutheran Church & Parsonage	0.5 miles	1985
Joseph Henry Moser Barn	0.5 miles	2013
June D. Drake House	0.5 miles	2011
Silverton Commercial Historic District	0.5 miles	1987
Louise Adams House	0.6 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000053 in Record Group 79.
Marion County	All 120 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.