Edwin and Ethel Abernethy House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 40 National Register listings published here for Coos County · listed in 1988 · category: Building.

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. Abernethy, Edwin and Ethel, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Box 103, Sitkum Route, Myrtle Point, 97458
When was it listed? September 1988
Category. building
Census division. Myrtle Point
National Register reference number. 88001532 - 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

32 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 32 fires within 5 miles of Edwin and Ethel Abernethy House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 23 acres in total. 6 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
Debris and open burning	12
Natural	6
Power generation/transmission/distribution	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
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
5 September 2008	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Bridge Unit	SITKUM LANE
22 September 2001	Other causes	under an acre	Bridge Unit	LEE VALLEY
21 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Coos Bay District	LONE PINE ROAD
12 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Bridge Unit	YANKEE RUN
9 August 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	SITKUM LANE MM 15
9 August 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Bridge Unit	DORA CEMETARY
8 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Coos Bay District	MP 16 SITKUM LN
5 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Bridge Unit	GOLDBRICK

Every fire recorded in Coos County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Edwin and Ethel Abernethy House: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
	Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Coos 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 88001532 in Record Group 79.
Coos County	All 40 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.