Silas A. Rice Log House

Built in 1884 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“Rice Log House, located on Oregon Route 19 at Burns Park in Condon, Oregon, is a historic log house built in 1884 as a simple pen of hewn logs. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.”
Wikipedia article Silas A. Rice Log House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Gilliam County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1884, rustic architecture.

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.
Listed as. Rice, Silas A., Log House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. OR 19 at Burns Park, Condon, 97823
When was it listed? October 1991
Category. building
Census division. Condon
When was it built? 1884
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 91001556 - 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

2 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Silas A. Rice Log House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 2,781 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Natural	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
25 July 2019	Power generation/transmission/distribution	781 acres	Prineville District	BARNETT RD
18 July 1992	Natural	2,000 acres	Prineville District	BUCKHOLLOW

Every fire recorded in Gilliam County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 10 workings within 5 miles of Silas A. Rice Log House: 5 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Condon Rock Products Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
30 Mile Creek Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
30 Mile Creek	Stone	Past Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Condon Rock Products	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Gilliam County

Storms near this property

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Condon, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1995 and 2020: 5 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 flash 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 2003	Flash Flood	Condon	$7,000	A thunderstorm produced very heavy rain in a short period of time in Condon. A cooperative observer reported 1.12 inches of rain in about 15 minutes, which led to flash flooding. The flash flood resulted in flooding on Main Street, while mud, rocks, and water spilled over roadways inside, and in the vicinity of Condon, flooding some buildings, and shorting out power lines. The basement of the North Central Education Service District Building collected water that rain gutters couldn't contain. Gilliam county Road Department Employees aided in cleaning and repairing county roads. The property damage from this event is estimated at $7,000.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Condon	-	Tree down and damage to a home.
June 2019	Hail	Condon	-	Hailstones up to the size of nickels were reported with accumulations of up to 2 inches on the ground.
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Condon	-	Power lines down across northern half of county between Arlington and Condon.
July 1998	Heavy Rain	Condon	-	A thunderstorm moved through Condon and produced heavy rain and strong wind. Local rain gages measured up to 2.25 inches of rain in less than two hours. Several basements and downtown businesses, including the post office, were flooded. The wind also broke tree branches.
May 2004	Hail	Condon	-	no account filed
August 2003	Hail	Condon	-	no account filed
August 1999	Hail	Condon	-	no account filed
July 1995	Hail	Condon	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gilliam 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Condon Commercial Historic District (Boundary Increase)	0.4 miles	2001
Condon Commercial Historic District	0.5 miles	1998
S. B. Barker Building	0.6 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91001556 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Gilliam County	All 4 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.
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.