Rice Brothers and Adams Building

Built in 1915. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Rice Brothers and Adams Building is a building in Myrtle Creek, Oregon, in the United States. It was built in 1915 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 11, 1983.”
Wikipedia article Rice Brothers and Adams Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1983 · category: Building · built in 1915.

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. 136 Main St., Myrtle Creek, 97457
When was it listed? August 1983
Category. building
Census division. Myrtle Creek-Riddle
When was it built? 1915
National Register reference number. 83002149 - 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

153 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 153 fires within 5 miles of Rice Brothers and Adams Building between 1992 and 2020, burning about 161 acres in total. 37 started naturally. 9 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	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Equipment and vehicle use	34
Debris and open burning	20
Arson/incendiarism	9
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Fireworks	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
9 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	DAYS CREEK CUTOFF # 2
9 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	DAYS CREEK CUTOFF # 3
9 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	DAYS CREEK CUTOFF # 1
8 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	DIVISION STREET #2
8 September 1999	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Douglas Forest Protective Association	K-BAR CANYON
7 September 2000	Arson/incendiarism	1.8 acres	Douglas Forest Protective Association	DIVISION STREET #1
6 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	SOUTH MYRTLE
6 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Roseburg District	FOREST ROAD

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Rice Brothers and Adams Building: 13 past producers, 9 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Copper, Chromium. 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
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
A Mine	Chromium	Producer	Chromite
A-Mine	Chromium	Past Producer
Dodson Deposit	Limestone, General	Producer
Dodson Deposit	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Fristoe	Iron	Past Producer
Fristoe	Iron	Past Producer
Stuempges Copper Prospect	Copper	Prospect
Stuempges Prospect	Copper	Occurrence	Chalcocite, Malachite

Every working recorded in Douglas 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

4 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
Bernard Pitzer Smith House	4.2 miles	1988
Weaver-Worthington Farmstead	5.1 miles	1984
Will Q. Brown House and Wash House	6.5 miles	1987
Canyonville Methodist Church	6.8 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83002149 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas County	All 47 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.