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Photograph of Patrick Hughes House
Photograph by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Patrick Hughes House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Patrick Hughes House, also known as Hughes Ranch and the Historic Hughes House, is a historic Queen Anne-style house built in 1898 on Cape Blanco in the U.S. state of Oregon. The Hughes family owned over 2,000 acres (810 ha) and operated a dairy farm on Cape Blanco.”

Wikipedia article Patrick Hughes House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Curry 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Hughes, Patrick, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. Cape Blanco State Park, Sixes, 97476
  • When was it listed? November 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Port Orford
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
  • National Register reference number. 80003310 - 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 Patrick Hughes House between 1992 and 2018, burning about 82 acres in total. 4 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 burning23
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Equipment and vehicle use3
Recreation and ceremony3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks1
Other causes1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreGold Beach UnitHEREFORD ROAD
4 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreCoos Bay DistrictCRYSTAL CREEK
15 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersAIRPORT ROAD
6 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersDENMARK
31 August 2012Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersMCKENZIE ROAD
31 August 1993Other causesunder an acreGold Beach UnitCRYSTAL CREEK
17 August 1997Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreGold Beach UnitAIRPORT ROAD
16 August 2003Natural46 acresGold Beach UnitCAPE BLANCO

Every fire recorded in Curry 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 Patrick Hughes House: 16 past producers, 6 producers, 5 occurrences, 2 prospects. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Chromium, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cape BlancoOsmium, Platinum, Gold, ChromiumPast ProducerChromite, Gold, Platinum
Cape Blanco MineGold, Platinum, OsmiumPast Producer
Chrome Beach PlacerGold, Chromium, PlatinumOccurrenceBeach Placer
Chrome Beach SandsChromium, PGE, GoldProspect
Crystal Terrace PlacerGold, Platinum, ChromiumOccurrenceBeach Placer
Crystal Terrace PlacerGold, Chromium, PGEOccurrence
Pioneer PlacerChromium, Platinum, GoldOccurrenceBeach Placer
ClapshawManganeseOccurrence
Clapshaw ProspectManganeseProspect1918
QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Curry County

Storms near this property

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sixes, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 1998Heavy RainSixes-4.20 inches rainfall fell in past 24 hours.

Every storm recorded in Curry 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

5 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Cape Blanco Lighthouse1.3 miles1993
Sixes Hotel3.4 miles1992
Peter John Lindberg House7.0 miles2015
Port Orford City Jail7.1 miles2025
Port Orford Coast Guard Station7.2 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80003310 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Curry CountyAll 12 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.