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One of 56 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1913.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Charles L. Schuster House
Built in 1913. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Schuster, Charles L., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 228 N.W. Twenty-eighth, Corvallis, 97330
- When was it listed? October 1986
- Category. building
- Census division. Corvallis
- When was it built? 1913
- National Register reference number. 86002843 - 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 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Charles L. Schuster House between 1992 and 2018, burning about 126 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 |
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 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 38 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Charles L. Schuster 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Pi Beta Phi Sorority House | under 500 feet | 1982 |
 | John Bexell House | 0.1 miles | 1992 |
 | College Hill West Historic District | 0.1 miles | 2002 |
 | J. Leo Fairbanks House | 0.2 miles | 1985 |
 | Oregon State University Historic District | 0.6 miles | 2021 |
 | Hadley-Locke House | 0.9 miles | 1981 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 86002843 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.