James O. Maxwell Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

One of 14 National Register listings published here for Baker County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 6 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Maxwell, James O., Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Rt. 2, Box 82 on N side Muddy Creek Rd., Haines, 97833
When was it listed? November 1986
Category. building
Census division. Wingville-Haines
National Register reference number. 86003086 - 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

29 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 29 fires within 5 miles of James O. Maxwell Farmstead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 17 started naturally. 1 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
Natural	17
Debris and open burning	6
Other causes	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
13 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Baker Unit	MUDDY CRK. II
5 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Baker Unit	CLAPP MEADOW
4 August 2004	Natural	under an acre	Baker Unit	COTTONWOOD
3 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Baker Unit	ROCK CREEK #1
27 August 2001	Arson/incendiarism	5.0 acres	Umatilla Agency	WEIGH STAT
21 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Umatilla Agency	MCKAY THIS
17 August 1992	Natural	1.0 acres	Baker Unit	MUDDY CREEK
1 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Baker Unit	MUDDY CREEK

Every fire recorded in Baker County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 27 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 27 workings within 5 miles of James O. Maxwell Farmstead: 18 past producers, 4 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Chemical Lime Co. Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Coyote Peak Prospect	Antimony, Silver, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Fisher Hot Spring	Geothermal	Producer
Magpie Mine	Gold, Silver, Antimony	Prospect
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Coyote Point	Stone	Past Producer
Coyote Point Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Powder River	Stone	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Baker County

Storms near this property

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Haines, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 2 hail, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2024	Heavy Rain	Haines	-	The mesonet station, EW4189, measured 0.72 inches of rain near Haines, OR.
July 2016	Hail	Haines	-	A trained spotter reported occasional one inch hail. Most of the hail was from an quarter of an inch to three quarters of an inch.
July 2006	Hail	Haines	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Baker 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86003086 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Baker County	All 14 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.