Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
From the record
“The John and Susanna Ahlf House is a historic residence in Grants Pass, Oregon, United States. Built in 1902, it is the finest remaining example of the Queen Anne style in Grants Pass, and was the most prominent home in the city prior to World War I.”
Wikipedia article John and Susanna Ahlf House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 69 National Register listings published here for Josephine County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.83002154- 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
474 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 474 fires within 5 miles of John and Susanna Ahlf House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 400 acres in total. 49 started naturally. 16 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
119
Debris and open burning
68
Smoking
54
Natural
49
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
44
Recreation and ceremony
31
Fireworks
29
Misuse of fire by a minor
26
Other causes
23
Arson/incendiarism
16
Power generation/transmission/distribution
10
Railroad operations and maintenance
4
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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
56 workings within 5 miles of John and Susanna Ahlf House: 30 past producers, 11 producers, 7 occurrences, 7 prospects.
11 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Grants Pass, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1997 and 2012: 4 hail, 2 lightning, 2 heavy rain, 1 flood.
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.
Spotters reported up to five inches of rain along with localized flooding with this storm. Local roads near OBrien were flooded in four different places.
The steeple of the Newman United Methodist Church was struck twice this day, damaging the steeple, windows, organ, and some other stuff. Damage amounted to $60,000.
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.
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.
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