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One of 73 National Register listings published here for Linn County · listed in 1980 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
C. J. Howe Building
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Howe, C. J., Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 104 Spaulding Ave., Brownsville, 97327
- When was it listed? April 1980
- Category. building
- Census division. Brownsville
- National Register reference number. 80003343 - 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
23 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of C. J. Howe Building between 1992 and 2015, burning about 10 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 2 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2009 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | GAP ROAD # 2 |
| 29 September 2005 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | MIDDLE RIDGE # 2 |
| 14 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | UNION POINT # 2 |
| 11 September 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.5 acres | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | SUNSET LANE |
| 4 August 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | UNION POINT |
| 15 August 2007 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | COURTNEY CREEK # 2 |
| 15 August 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Sweet Home Unit - ODF | COURTNEY CREEK # 3 |
| 12 August 2014 | Natural | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | OAK BASIN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 30 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of C. J. Howe Building: 16 past producers, 14 producers. 14 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abc Crushing Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Abc Crushing Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Brownsville Bar | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Brownsville Bar | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Ellefson | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Ellefson Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Henshaw Bar | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Henshaw Bar | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Leblanc | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brownsville, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2009 and 2019: 4 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Brownsville | - | Public reported a funnel cloud near Brownsville. |
| May 2018 | Funnel Cloud | Brownsville | - | A trained storm spotter reported two funnel clouds 2 miles west of Brownsville, OR. |
| October 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Brownsville | - | A couple of reports from the Public described a funnel cloud around 10 miles north of Brownsville, Oregon. One of the reports came from an off-duty police dispatcher that confirmed rotation with the cloud. |
| June 2009 | Funnel Cloud | Brownsville | - | A funnel cloud was sighted and photographed north of Brownsville during the afternoon. The time and exact location are estimated based on the narrative from the newspaper clipping. The funnel cloud and another one nearby never touched the ground, lasted only a few minutes before they disappeared. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Starr and Blakely Drug Store | under 500 feet | 1982 |
| Ross-Averill House | under 500 feet | 1991 | |
 | John M. Moyer House | under 500 feet | 1974 |
 | First Baptist Church of Brownsville | 0.1 miles | 1991 |
 | John and Mary Moore House | 0.2 miles | 2001 |
 | George C. Cooley House | 0.6 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 80003343 in Record Group 79. |
| Linn County | All 73 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.