Henry Brown House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Brown, Henry, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. W of Elkton off OR 38, Elkton, 97436
When was it listed? October 1979
Category. building
Census division. Elkton-Drain
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 79002057 - 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

43 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Henry Brown House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 36 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	13
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Other causes	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
7 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Coos Bay District	CEDAR CREEK
7 September 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	HWY 38
4 September 2002	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	HIGHWAY 38
3 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BUNCHES BAR
25 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	TUCKAWAY LANE
23 September 1992	Other causes	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	PARADISE CREEK
3 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	SAWYER CREEK
24 August 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	WEATHERLY CR. #2

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Henry Brown House: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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
Agee Bar Pit & Plant	Stone	Past Producer
Agee Bar Pit & Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Buzzard Bay Bar	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Buzzard Bay Bar	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002057 in Record Group 79.
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.