Harold Wass Ray House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The Harold Wass Ray House is a historic home in Hillsboro in the U.S. state of Oregon. Built in 1935 for businessman Harold Wass Ray (1884-1969), it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.”
Wikipedia article Harold Wass Ray House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1994 · 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.
Listed as. Ray, Harold Wass, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 5611 NE. Elam Young Pkwy., Hillsboro, 97124
When was it listed? January 1994
Category. building
Census division. Beaverton-Hillsboro
Architectural style. Prairie School architecture
National Register reference number. 93001504 - 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

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Harold Wass Ray House: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Platinum, PGE. 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	Recorded
Hillsboro	Platinum	Occurrence	Stream Placer
Hillsboro Platinum Occurrence	PGE	Occurrence
Rock Creek	Stone	Past Producer
Rock Creek Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hillsboro, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1998 and 2015: 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 funnel cloud. 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
September 2015	Funnel Cloud	Hillsboro	-	The NWS received several reports of a funnel cloud near Hillsboro in the afternoon, including one report from a county official.
August 1999	Lightning	Hillsboro	-	The last evening of convection in a very active three day period produced two strong cells that brought widespread lightning to the Portland and Hillsboro areas. More than 100 transformers were knocked out, causing power outages to 15000 Portland General Electric customers. The Westside MAX Light Rail line was out of service from 7 PM to 830 PM.
May 1998	Hail	Hillsboro	-	A small airplane pilot near Hillsboro reported brief quarter sized (one inch) hail at a little after 4 PM PST. The report was confirmed by a call to McMinnville Flight Service Station.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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

6 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
Malcolm McDonald House	0.9 miles	2015
Imbrie Farm	1.7 miles	1977
Shute-Meierjurgen Farmstead	1.8 miles	2018
Aloha Farmhouse	2.4 miles	2014
Charles Shorey House	2.6 miles	1989
Edward Schulmerich House	2.9 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 93001504 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 51 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.