Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
From the record
“The Horace L Dibble House was built circa 1859 in Molalla, Oregon for Horace Lasalle Dibble and his family. The house is unusual as a western example of a saltbox, a dwelling type more commonly associated with Colonial-era New England.”
Wikipedia article Horace L. Dibble House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 93 National Register listings published here for Clackamas County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.74001675- 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
162 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 162 fires within 5 miles of Horace L. Dibble House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,648 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 10 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
82
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
25
Equipment and vehicle use
14
Arson/incendiarism
10
Recreation and ceremony
9
Other causes
8
Smoking
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Fireworks
2
Natural
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
50 workings within 5 miles of Horace L. Dibble House: 37 past producers, 9 producers, 2 occurrences, 2 prospects.
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Molalla, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2019: 3 lightning, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado.
The reports record 2 injuries. 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.
A thunderstorm early Wednesday evening produced lightning that struck a man riding a tractor near Toliver Road, west of Highway 213 in Molalla, Oregon. The man drove himself to the hospital.
The tornado occurred along Highway 213 2 miles west of Molalla. One half of a roof was torn from a home, the roof of an apartment complex was damaged, a satellite dish was torn from it's mounting, two one foot diameter trees were toppled, and a gate and a dog house, along with smaller items, were strewn about. No injuries were reported.
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.
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.
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