Gilliam and Bisbee Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

From the record

“The Gilliam and Bisbee Building is an historic commercial structure in Heppner in the U.S. state of Oregon.”
Wikipedia article Gilliam and Bisbee Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 5 National Register listings published here for Morrow 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. SE corner of Main and May Sts., Heppner, 97836
When was it listed? June 1990
Category. building
Census division. Heppner
National Register reference number. 90000840 - 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.

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 Gilliam and Bisbee Building: 1 past producer, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
	Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
	Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Morrow County

Storms near this property

17 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Heppner, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1998 and 2019: 6 hail, 4 heavy rain, 3 flash flood, 2 flood. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2000	Lightning	Heppner	$100,000	no account filed
May 2011	Flash Flood	Heppner	$94,000	One to two inches of rainfall within 1 hour caused flash flooding in the Heppner and Lexington areas. Roads were inundated. A home, two basements, and a garage were flooded. Sandbags were used to protect homes and businesses.
June 2011	Flash Flood	Heppner	$70,000	Flash flooding on Hinton and Willow Creeks damaged roads, bridges, and the Morrow County Fairgrounds. The Heppner elementary school was evacuated as a precaution.
October 2018	Flood	Heppner	$3,000	Two feet of water inside a residence due to heavy rain forced four adults and a child to leave their house on the 54200 Block of Highway 74 in Heppner.
April 2019	Flood	Heppner	$2,000	Flooding along Hinton Creek took place on April 9th and 10th. The fairgrounds in Heppner were flooded as well as fields along the creek above Heppner.
April 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Heppner	-	Pear tree had several limbs broken off.
April 2012	Heavy Rain	Heppner	-	Three quarters of an inch of rainfall fell in a 35 minute period.
April 2012	Flash Flood	Heppner	-	Heavy rainfall caused flash flooding in several areas of Heppner, including residences, the elementary school, sewage treatment plant, city shop, a bank, and the newspaper office. Roadways were also flooded and debris cleanup had to ensue in 10 spots.
April 2012	Heavy Rain	Heppner	-	Rainfall of 1.23 inches was reported in a 1 hour period.
July 2012	Hail	Heppner	-	Hail dented vehicles, broke windshields and caused some roof damage.
July 2012	Heavy Rain	Heppner	-	Shobe Canyon mesonet station reported 1.1 inches of rainfall in 1 hour.
April 1998	Heavy Rain	Heppner	-	Three tenths to one half inch of rain fell in 20 minutes from Heppner to Ione with wind gusts to 40 mph.
July 2006	Hail	Heppner	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Heppner	-	no account filed
July 2006	Hail	Heppner	-	no account filed
June 2006	Hail	Heppner	-	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Heppner	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Morrow 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Heppner Hotel	under 500 feet	1982
	Morrow County Courthouse	0.2 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 90000840 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Morrow County	All 5 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.
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.