Philip Foster Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“Philip Foster Farm is a historic site in Eagle Creek, Oregon, United States, near the city of Estacada. The farm is part of a 640-acre (260 ha) land claim purchased in 1847 by American pioneer Philip Foster.”
Wikipedia article Philip Foster Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Clackamas County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.

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 5 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Foster, Philip, Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off OR 211, Eagle Creek, 97022
When was it listed? August 1980
Category. building
Census division. Estacada
National Register reference number. 80003305 - 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

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Philip Foster Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,552 acres in total. None started naturally. 11 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	67
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	11
Arson/incendiarism	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Smoking	7
Fireworks	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Other causes	2

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 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Oregon District	LILIAN LN
8 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	EAGLE VIEW
8 September 2006	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Molalla Unit	SHERMAN COOPER
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,508 acres	Molalla Unit	DOWTY RD
6 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	DOWTY RD FIRE
5 September 2019	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	NURSERY PILE
5 September 2010	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Molalla Unit	PAUL BUNYON
3 September 2011	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Molalla Unit	TARA LARA LN

Every fire recorded in Clackamas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 53 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 53 workings within 5 miles of Philip Foster Farm: 43 past producers, 9 producers, 1 unknown. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Stone, Dimension. 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
Red Rock Pit 7511 Trs	Stone, Dimension	Unknown
E Fischer	Stone	Past Producer
Estacada Pit and Plant	Stone	Past Producer
South Eagle Pit	Stone	Past Producer
E Fischer	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Estacada Pit and Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Fishcreek Turn Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Goodfellow Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Pit 7524 Trs	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Rimtie 6805 Trs	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clackamas County

Storms near this property

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Eagle Creek, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2022: 1 heavy rain, 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
April 2022	Hail	Eagle Creek	$50,000	Strong showers developed with small, but accumulating hail. There was a report of a head on collision with one fatality that likely occurred due to the hail storm. Oregon 211 Highway was closed for 3 hours.
December 2007	Heavy Rain	Eagle Creek	-	Storm total precipitation was 3.17 inches.

Every storm recorded in Clackamas 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Andrew J. and Anna B. Johnston Farmstead	3.4 miles	1997
River Mill Hydroelectric Project	4.0 miles	2001
R. S. Smith Motor Company Building	5.3 miles	1994
Damascus School	6.4 miles	1980
Horace Baker Log Cabin	7.2 miles	1976
Jackson, C. S. "Sam", Log House	7.3 miles	1981

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003305 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clackamas County	All 93 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.