Jefferson Mosier House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Jefferson Mosier House is a historic house in Mosier, Oregon, United States. Mosier (1860-1928) first platted the town in 1902 on what had been his father's donation land claim, and tirelessly promoted it for decades after.”
Wikipedia article Jefferson Mosier House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Wasco County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Mosier, Jefferson, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 704 3rd Ave., Mosier, 97040
When was it listed? February 1990
Category. building
Census division. The Dalles
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 90000286 - 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

288 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 288 fires within 5 miles of Jefferson Mosier House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,710 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 17 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
Debris and open burning	54
Equipment and vehicle use	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	36
Railroad operations and maintenance	36
Smoking	26
Recreation and ceremony	21
Arson/incendiarism	17
Power generation/transmission/distribution	17
Natural	16
Fireworks	16
Other causes	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	5

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 1998	Smoking	under an acre	The Dalles Unit	STATE ROAD
8 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2.6 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	ROWENA CREEK
8 September 2003	Smoking	4.0 acres	The Dalles Unit	MEMALOOSE CAMPGROUND
7 September 1993	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	MOSIER EAST
7 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	The Dalles Unit	MOSIER EAST
7 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	CATHERINE
5 September 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	The Dalles Unit	RICHARD RD.

Every fire recorded in Wasco County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Jefferson Mosier House: 30 past producers, 16 producers, 1 unknown. 16 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Cove	Stone	Past Producer
Dickinson	Stone	Past Producer
East Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Hanel Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Koberg Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Marsh	Stone	Past Producer
Mosier	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Wasco 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 90000286 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wasco County	All 31 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.