Built in 1899. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
From the record
“Dorris Ranch is a 268-acre (108-hectare) municipal park and commercial filbert orchard just south of downtown Springfield, Oregon, United States. It is operated by the Willamalane Park and Recreation District.”
Wikipedia article Dorris Ranch Living History Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 123 National Register listings published here for Lane County · listed in 1988 · category: District · built in 1899.
National Register reference number.88000724- 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
104 since 1994
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 104 fires within 5 miles of Dorris Ranch
between 1994 and 2020, burning about 226 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
49
Equipment and vehicle use
15
Recreation and ceremony
11
Smoking
7
Power generation/transmission/distribution
6
Arson/incendiarism
6
Debris and open burning
4
Natural
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Fireworks
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
34 workings within 5 miles of Dorris Ranch: 20 past producers, 14 producers.
14 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Springfield, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2005 and 2015: 5 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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.
The Siuslaw River flooded near Mapleton and the Mohawk River flooded near Springfield. Minor flooding of a pastureland was reported in Swisshome due to flooding of Mann Creek. A new daily rainfall record of 1.65 inches in Eugene broke the previous record of 1.35 inches last set in 1957.
The Mohawk River near Springfield reached flood stage at 400 PM PST. The river crested at 15.1 feet at 515 PM PST, and fell below flood level at 630 PM PST.
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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