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One of 47 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Bernard Pitzer Smith House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Smith, Bernard Pitzer, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 15892 Old Hwy. 99, S, Myrtle Creek, 97457
- When was it listed? August 1988
- Category. building
- Census division. Tenmile
- National Register reference number. 88001313 - 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
173 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 173 fires within 5 miles of Bernard Pitzer Smith House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 394 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 3 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 | 59 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 28 |
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 17 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2004 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Douglas Forest Protective Association | COON HOLLOW |
| 8 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Douglas Forest Protective Association | K-BAR CANYON |
| 5 September 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Douglas Forest Protective Association | HIS GLORY LN |
| 4 September 2020 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | HOMESTEAD |
| 4 September 2014 | Equipment and vehicle use | 53 acres | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | CLARKS BRANCH COMPLEX |
| 4 September 2002 | Smoking | under an acre | Douglas Forest Protective Association | SIGNAL 5513 |
| 30 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Roseburg District | JUDD CREEK |
| 30 September 2003 | Fireworks | under an acre | Douglas Forest Protective Association | I-5 MP 107 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 37 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Bernard Pitzer Smith House: 18 past producers, 13 producers, 4 occurrences, 2 prospects. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Mine | Chromium | Producer | Chromite | |
| A-Mine | Chromium | Past Producer | ||
| Stuempges Copper Prospect | Copper | Prospect | ||
| Stuempges Prospect | Copper | Occurrence | Chalcocite, Malachite | |
| Dillard Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Goodin Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| L-P Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Mount Obeth | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Rice Brothers and Adams Building | 4.2 miles | 1983 |
 | Miller's Mountain House | 4.3 miles | 1984 |
| C. E. Moyer Nurseries Property | 4.7 miles | 1988 | |
 | William C. and Agnes Winston House | 5.3 miles | 1987 |
 | Henry Clay Smith House | 5.3 miles | 1997 |
 | Will Q. Brown House and Wash House | 7.9 miles | 1987 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88001313 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.