William C. and Agnes Winston House

Built in 1887. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

One of 47 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1887.

Sources: 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.
Listed as. Winston, William C. and Agnes, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Winston Section Rd., Winston, 97496
When was it listed? September 1987
Category. building
Census division. Tenmile
When was it built? 1887
National Register reference number. 87001540 - 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

148 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 148 fires within 5 miles of William C. and Agnes Winston House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 372 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 15 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	53
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Railroad operations and maintenance	15
Arson/incendiarism	15
Debris and open burning	14
Power generation/transmission/distribution	8
Recreation and ceremony	7
Natural	6
Fireworks	4
Other causes	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	3

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 2000	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Douglas Forest Protective Association	GEM DRIVE
8 September 2004	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Douglas Forest Protective Association	COON HOLLOW
7 September 1994	Power generation/transmission/distribution	3.0 acres	Douglas Forest Protective Association	LOOKINGGLASS ROAD #2
6 September 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	TOPAZ DRIVE
4 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	HOMESTEAD
4 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	INDIAN NOSE
4 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	53 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	CLARKS BRANCH COMPLEX
3 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	LOOKINGGLASS

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 84 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 84 workings within 5 miles of William C. and Agnes Winston House: 49 past producers, 31 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. 31 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Limestone, General. 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
Fisher Property	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Fisher Property	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Harrington Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Harrington Deposit	Limestone, General	Prospect
Oregon Portland Cement Co	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Oregon Portland Cement Co. Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	1935
Oregon Portland Cement Co. Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Boggs Site	Stone	Past Producer
C B Ranch Pit	Stone	Past Producer
C B Ranch Pit	Stone	Past Producer

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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Henry Clay Smith House	under 500 feet	1997
Miller's Mountain House	1.1 miles	1984
C. E. Moyer Nurseries Property	1.6 miles	1988
Moses Parrott House	5.2 miles	1980
Bernard Pitzer Smith House	5.3 miles	1988
Mill-Pine Neighborhood Historic District	5.5 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001540 in Record Group 79.
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.