Ed Rand House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.

From the record

“The Ed Rand House, located in Baker City, Oregon, is a house listed on the National Register of Historic Places, designed by the architect Ed Rand.”
Wikipedia article Ed Rand House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Baker County · listed in 1981 · 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. Rand, Ed, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1700 4th St., Baker, 97814
When was it listed? December 1981
Category. building
Census division. Baker City
National Register reference number. 81000709 - 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

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of Ed Rand House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,564 acres in total. 12 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
Natural	12
Recreation and ceremony	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Firearms and explosives use	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
7 September 2014	Firearms and explosives use	under an acre	Vale District	FLAGSTAFF
21 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	not named
1 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Vale District	MP 311
7 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Vale District	DOOLEY MTN
5 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	ARCHERY RANGE
5 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Wallowa-Whitman National Forest	SHOULDA BEEN BIGGER
5 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Baker Unit	ELK CREEK
31 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	27 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	GRIFFIN GULCH

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 81 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 81 workings within 5 miles of Ed Rand House: 43 past producers, 17 producers, 8 unknowns, 7 occurrences. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Stone. 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
Blue Mountain Lime Mill	Calcium	Producer
Gray Eagle	Antimony, Gold	Producer	Stibnite
Gray Eagle Mine	Antimony, Gold, Silver	Prospect	Cervantite, Stibiconite, Stibnite
Gray Eagle Mine	Antimony, Silver, Gold	Producer
Heston Site	Copper	Producer
Lucky Strike	Antimony, Gold, Copper	Prospect
Sam-O Spring	Geothermal	Producer
Coyote Peak Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Coyote Peak Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Flagstaff Sand Pit	Gold, Silver	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Baker 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Baker Historic District	0.2 miles	1978
St. Elizabeth Hospital (Old)	0.4 miles	1989
Robert F. and Elizabeth Clark House	0.5 miles	1989
Baker Municipal Natatorium	0.6 miles	1977
Churchill School	0.9 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 81000709 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Baker County	All 14 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.