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One of 84 National Register listings published here for Yamhill County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1879.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Lee Laughlin House
Built in 1879. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Laughlin, Lee, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 100 Laurel St., Yamhill, 97148
- When was it listed? March 1979
- Category. building
- Census division. Carlton
- When was it built? 1879
- National Register reference number. 79002153 - 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
79 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 79 fires within 5 miles of Lee Laughlin House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 143 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 2 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 | 29 |
| Debris and open burning | 25 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Other causes | 5 |
| Natural | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2018 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | HWY 47 MCLOUGHLIN FIRE |
| 4 September 2015 | Natural | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | MARSHALL ROAD TREE FIRE |
| 3 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | WESTSIDE DITCH FIRE |
| 3 September 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | ROCKYFORD RD FIRE |
| 3 September 2009 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Forest Grove District | FAIRDALE CAR FIRE |
| 27 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | 2.6 acres | Forest Grove District | ROCKYFORD FIRE |
| 26 September 2008 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Forest Grove District | FAIRDALE GATOR FIRE |
| 25 September 2003 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Forest Grove District | LINCOLN AVENUE FIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
8 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Lee Laughlin House: 3 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bauxite Yamhill | Iron, Titanium, Metal, Aluminum | Occurrence | ||
| Yamhill Bauxite Deposit | Aluminum, Titanium, Iron | Prospect | ||
| Carpenter Creek Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Carpenter Creek Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pekkola Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Pekkola Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yamhill, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2004: 2 lightning. 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.
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | John Marion Bunn House | 0.2 miles | 1979 |
 | Carlton State and Savings Bank | 3.3 miles | 1988 |
 | John B. Wennerberg Barn | 3.5 miles | 2018 |
 | Joseph Mattey House | 7.1 miles | 1977 |
 | Evangelical Church of Lafayette | 7.5 miles | 2002 |
 | James M. and Paul R. Kelty House | 7.7 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79002153 in Record Group 79. |
| Yamhill County | All 84 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.