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Travelers Home

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“Travelers Home is an Italian Villa and Queen Anne style home in Sheridan, Oregon, United States. It was built in 1892, and the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 8, 1982.”

Wikipedia article Travelers Home, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 84 National Register listings published here for Yamhill County · listed in 1982 · 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.
  • Address. 147 NE Yamhill St., Sheridan, 97378
  • When was it listed? July 1982
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Sheridan
  • Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
  • National Register reference number. 82003757 - 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Travelers Home between 1992 and 2020, burning about 162 acres in total. 3 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 burning14
Equipment and vehicle use7
Natural3
Fireworks3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Recreation and ceremony1
Other causes1
Smoking1

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
6 September 2002Natural117 acresForest Grove DistrictDUPEE VALLEY FIRE
21 September 2004Debris and open burningunder an acreForest Grove DistrictROCK CREEK
2 September 1996Debris and open burning2.0 acresForest Grove DistrictGRAUER ROAD FIRE
15 September 2006Other causesunder an acreDallas UnitBUCK HOLLOW RD.
12 September 2001Misuse of fire by a minor2.0 acresForest Grove DistrictSUNNYRIDGE BURN
27 August 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersWILEY ROAD FIRE
24 August 2005Fireworks2.1 acresForest Grove DistrictSUNNY RIDGE FIRE
23 August 2007Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreForest Grove DistrictBEAVER CREEK FIRE

Every fire recorded in Yamhill County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Travelers Home: 7 past producers, 6 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. 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
Kindell Weir ProspectSilver, Copper, GoldOccurrence
Kindell Weir ProspectSilver, Copper, GoldProspect
Buell LimestoneLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Buell LimestoneLimestone, GeneralOccurrence
QuarryStonePast Producer
Tschanz QuarryStonePast Producer
Tschanz QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Williams PitStonePast Producer
Williams PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Yamhill County

Storms near this property

1 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sheridan, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2015: 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
December 2015Heavy RainSheridan$146,000The Oregon State route 22 was closed due to erosion (sinkhole) from heavy rain. Oregon state route 153 was closed due to high water on the roads between mile markers 1 and 6.

Every storm recorded in Yamhill 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

3 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
Dr. Andrew Kershaw House4.5 miles1989
Lamson Ranch5.6 miles2013
Briedwell School7.7 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 82003757 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yamhill CountyAll 84 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.