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One of 56 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Peter Rickard Farmstead
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 7 sitess, 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Rickard, Peter, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. SW of Corvallis, Corvallis, 97333
- When was it listed? September 1983
- Category. building
- Census division. Southeast Benton
- National Register reference number. 83002142 - 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
64 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Peter Rickard Farmstead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 426 acres in total. 8 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 18 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Smoking | 5 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 3.0 acres | William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge | NUSBAUM 15 |
| 6 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | BRUCE RD FIRE |
| 6 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Northwest Oregon District | CHEYENNE CREEK |
| 6 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | DECKER RIDGE STRIKE |
| 6 September 1993 | Equipment and vehicle use | 9.0 acres | William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge | NUSBAUM 94 |
| 3 September 2014 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 25 acres | William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge | NEW SKID |
| 15 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Philomath Unit | MILL HILL |
| 15 September 2001 | Natural | under an acre | Philomath Unit | BEAVER CREEK |
Mines and quarries near this property
3 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Peter Rickard Farmstead: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basalt Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
6 since 1996Regional 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | John Fiechter House | 2.7 miles | 1985 |
 | Independent School | 3.5 miles | 2013 |
 | Willamette Community and Grange Hall | 3.9 miles | 2009 |
| Richard S. Irwin Barn | 4.3 miles | 1988 | |
 | Edwin and Anna Starr House | 5.7 miles | 1986 |
| Philomath College | 6.5 miles | 1972 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83002142 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.