William J. and Sarah Wagner Lippincott House

Built in 1951 (modern architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

One of 69 National Register listings published here for Josephine County · listed in 2015 · category: Building · built in 1951, modern architecture.

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.
Listed as. Lippincott, William J. and Sarah Wagner, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 14601 Watergap Rd., Williams, 97544
When was it listed? May 2015
Category. building
Census division. Williams
When was it built? 1951
Architectural style. modern architecture
National Register reference number. 15000239 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

253 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 253 fires within 5 miles of William J. and Sarah Wagner Lippincott House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 829 acres in total. 46 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
Equipment and vehicle use	60
Natural	46
Debris and open burning	36
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	28
Power generation/transmission/distribution	22
Smoking	14
Other causes	13
Fireworks	12
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Recreation and ceremony	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Firearms and explosives use	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 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Grants Pass Unit	WILLIAMS HWY 12900
8 September 1997	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Grants Pass Unit	P.P. F816
5 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Medford District	FIELDS ROAD
5 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Medford District	THOMPSONCK
5 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Medford District	MISSOURIFL
5 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grants Pass Unit	TETHEROW ROAD
29 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	MEADOW VIEW 1201
29 September 2007	Other causes	under an acre	Grants Pass Unit	BROWNS ROAD 380

Every fire recorded in Josephine County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 124 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 124 workings within 5 miles of William J. and Sarah Wagner Lippincott House: 63 past producers, 20 occurrences, 20 prospects, 18 producers. 18 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Chromium. 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
Briner	Antimony, Tungsten, Iron	Occurrence
Briner Property	Antimony, Tungsten, Iron	Prospect
Chrome Prospect	Gold, Chromium	Past Producer
Dark Canyon	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Tellurium	Producer	Pyrite
Humdinger	Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper, Zinc	Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite
Humdinger Mine	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper	Past Producer
Oregon Beauty	Iron, Gold	Occurrence	Gold
Oregon Bonanza Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead	Past Producer	Galena, Pyrite
Oregon Bonanza Mine	Gold, Silver, Lead	Past Producer
Porcupine Mine	Gold, Silver, Tellurium	Occurrence	Vein

Every working recorded in Josephine County

Storms near this property

3 since 2009

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Williams, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2009 and 2015: 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
May 2015	Hail	Williams	-	A spotter 1.5 miles west of downtown Williams reported heavy rain with flooding of nearby roads. 1.0 inch hail was reported stripping leaves from trees.
August 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Williams	-	The Squaw Peak RAWS just over the Jackson County line recorded a gust to 53 mph at 1739 PST and a gust to 75 mph at 1839 PST. These gusts were associated with the outflow from a nearby storm. Since the storm itself was over Josephine County, it is assumed that gusts meeting severe thunderstorm criteria occurred there as well.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Williams	-	A strong thunderstorm brought nickel size hail and heavy rain with some local urban type flooding. Strong winds brought down 3 trees, two of which were 60 feet tall. The third downed tree was 10 inches in diameter.

Every storm recorded in Josephine 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 15000239 in Record Group 79.
Josephine County	All 69 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.