Pi Beta Phi Sorority House

Built in 1928. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1928.

Sources: 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.
Address. 3002 NW Harrison Blvd., Corvallis, 97330
When was it listed? June 1982
Category. building
Census division. Corvallis
When was it built? 1928
National Register reference number. 82003721 - 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

36 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Pi Beta Phi Sorority House between 1992 and 2018, burning about 127 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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 burning	13
Smoking	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Fireworks	1
Other causes	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
5 September 2014	Misuse of fire by a minor	86 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	CHIP ROSS FIRE
28 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Philomath Unit	CHIP ROSS
25 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Philomath Unit	OAK CREEK
2 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Philomath Unit	OAK CREEK
2 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Philomath Unit	CRESENT VALLEY DR
16 September 2001	Natural	7.5 acres	Philomath Unit	POWER SKUNK FIRE
15 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Philomath Unit	NEWTON CREEK
1 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Philomath Unit	OAK CREEK

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Pi Beta Phi Sorority House: 25 past producers, 12 producers, 1 occurrence. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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
Ag-Lime Plant	Calcium	Past Producer
Transtion Metals Corp	Platinum, Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Alder Creek Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Fisher Island Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Alder Creek	Stone	Past Producer
Fisher Island Plant	Stone	Past Producer
Wicks Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Corvallis Brick & Tile	Clay	Past Producer
Corvallis Brick & Tile Pit	Clay	Producer

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this property

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corvallis, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. 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 2014	Lightning	Corvallis	$11,000	Abundant lightning resulted in around 1000 PGE customers without power in the Albany and Corvallis area. A public caller reported that a large tree struck from lightning fell onto a home.
April 2019	Flood	Corvallis	-	The Willamette River near Corvallis crested at 32.8 feet around 9 AM on April 10th, which is 2.8 feet above flood stage.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Corvallis	-	no account filed
January 2006	Flood	Corvallis	-	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Corvallis	-	no account filed
May 1996	Funnel Cloud	Corvallis	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
John Bexell House	under 500 feet	1992
College Hill West Historic District	under 500 feet	2002
Charles L. Schuster House	under 500 feet	1986
J. Leo Fairbanks House	0.1 miles	1985
Oregon State University Historic District	0.6 miles	2021
Irish Bend Covered Bridge No. 14169	0.9 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82003721 in Record Group 79.
Benton County	All 56 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.