Nils Ahlstrom House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Nils Ahlstrom House is a nineteenth century Classical Revival house located in Ashland, Oregon. Built in 1888 by Nils Ahlstrom, a railroad worker who had emigrated from Sweden, the home was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.”
Wikipedia article Nils Ahlstrom House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 154 National Register listings published here for Jackson 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Ahlstrom, Nils, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 248 5th St., Ashland, 97520
When was it listed? February 1980
Category. building
Census division. Ashland
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 80003315 - 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

186 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 186 fires within 5 miles of Nils Ahlstrom House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,850 acres in total. 43 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
Equipment and vehicle use	44
Natural	43
Debris and open burning	26
Recreation and ceremony	21
Arson/incendiarism	11
Power generation/transmission/distribution	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	7
Fireworks	6
Other causes	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
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	Equipment and vehicle use	18 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	DEAD INDIAN MEMORIAL #3
8 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	3,200 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	ALMEDA
8 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	GUN CLUB(891EMIGRANTCRK)
8 September 1992	Smoking	under an acre	Medford Unit	ELKADER
8 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Medford Unit	TALENT AVE
7 September 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Medford Unit	PP#D 12209
7 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Medford Unit	I-5 SB MM 11
7 September 2006	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Medford Unit	JENSEN LN

Every fire recorded in Jackson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 86 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 86 workings within 5 miles of Nils Ahlstrom House: 32 past producers, 21 occurrences, 17 prospects, 15 producers. 15 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Stone, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Ashland Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead	Past Producer	1886, 1901
Ashland Coal	Coal, Sulfur	Occurrence
Bratcher #10 Prospect	Gold, Copper, Silver, Molybdenum	Prospect
Bratcher No. 10	Silica, Copper, Molybdenum, Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Molybdenite, Pyrite, Quartz
Burdic Group	Gold, Manganese	Occurrence	Pyrolusite
Burris Prospect	Copper, Gold, Manganese	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Rhodonite
Burris Prospect	Gold, Manganese, Copper	Prospect	1958
Columbine Claim	Gold, Copper, Silver, Manganese	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Gold, Marcasite, Pyrite
Double Jack	Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead	Past Producer	1870
Double Jack Mine	Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Jackson County

Storms near this property

15 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ashland, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1993 and 2015: 9 hail, 3 flash flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 flood. 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
July 2015	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	A former local weathercaster reported winds gusting 50-60 mph in Ashland.
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	Ashland	-	Numerous trees were broken or uprooted when the squall line went through. ODOT reported Oregon Highway 62 was closed by fallen trees. A house, shed, and mobile home in Rogue River were destroyed by falling trees. Another house was destroyed in Jacksonville.
August 2009	Hail	Ashland	-	Most of the hailstones were nickel sized, some were quarter sized. The larger ones measured 11/8 inches in diameter.
August 2009	Hail	Ashland	-	Golf ball size hail was reported at this location and time.
August 2007	Flash Flood	Ashland	-	A member of the public reported that water in Hamilton creek at the corner of East Main and Clay Creek was one foot from bankfull and rising rapidly.\|
August 2007	Hail	Ashland	-	An Ashland Emergency Manager reported large hail for a brief period in the late afternoon. This was the only report of severe hail among numerous reports of smaller hail, so it is assumed that the severe hail coverage was local and and period of time was brief.
August 2007	Flash Flood	Ashland	-	A former spotter in South Ashland reported 3.05 inches of rain in this time interval.
August 2007	Flash Flood	Ashland	-	A spotter in South Ashland reported one foot of water running over the intersection of Whiteman and Siskiyou.
May 2005	Hail	Ashland	-	A spotter 3SE Ashland reported 0.75 inch hail with a thunderstorm.
August 2003	Hail	Ashland	-	Spotter JA58 reported hail, the largest of which was golf ball size.
July 1998	Hail	Ashland	-	Thunderstorm produced dime size hail in north Ashland.
December 1996	Flood	Ashland	-	small stream flooding was county wide
July 1995	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed
August 1993	Hail	Ashland	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Jackson 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
Robert and Ruth Lucas House and Mary E. Rose House	under 500 feet	1988
Ashland Railroad Addition Historic District	0.1 miles	1999
Ashland Depot Hotel, South Wing	0.1 miles	1991
Peerless Rooms Building	0.1 miles	1992
Ashland Cemetery	0.2 miles	1995
E. C. Kane House	0.2 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003315 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Jackson County	All 154 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.