Charles Applegate House

Built in 1852 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Charles Applegate House is in Yoncalla, Oregon. The house was built in 1852 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 17, 1975.”
Wikipedia article Charles Applegate House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1852, Neoclassical architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · 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. Applegate, Charles, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. NE of Yoncalla on Halo Trail, Yoncalla, 97499
When was it listed? March 1975
Category. building
Census division. Kellogg-Yoncalla
When was it built? 1852
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 75001583 - 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

90 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 90 fires within 5 miles of Charles Applegate House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 224 acres in total. 5 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
Equipment and vehicle use	38
Debris and open burning	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Recreation and ceremony	5
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Roseburg District	EAGLE VALLEY
7 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	HALO TRAIL
6 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	23 acres	Douglas Forest Protective Association	APPLEGATE ROAD
5 September 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	ANLAUF ROAD
4 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	I-5 MP 153 SB
4 September 2000	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Douglas Forest Protective Association	RICE VALLEY
30 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	I-5 MP 151 NB
3 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	DRAIN SECTION ROAD

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Charles Applegate House: 17 past producers, 7 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Mercury, 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	Recorded
Unnamed Pit	Clay, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Cody-Long Quarry and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Wilson Prospect	Mercury	Occurrence
Wilson Prospect	Mercury	Prospect
Wilson Prospect	Mercury	Occurrence
Wilson Prospest	Mercury	Occurrence	1937
Baldy Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Bear Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas 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

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Charles D. Drain Jr. House	4.0 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001583 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas County	All 47 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.