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Photograph of John and Helen Moore House
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

John and Helen Moore House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

“The John and Helen Moore House is a historic house near Moro, Oregon, United States. It is an excellent example of the rural expression of the Italianate style in residential construction.”

Wikipedia article John and Helen Moore House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 4 National Register listings published here for Sherman 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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Moore, John and Helen, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 66432 US 97, Moro, 97039
  • When was it listed? August 1994
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Moro
  • Architectural style. Italianate architecture
  • National Register reference number. 94000806 - 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

6 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of John and Helen Moore House between 2008 and 2017, burning about 9,975 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined5
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 August 2008Natural5,175 acresPrineville District0650 SAYRS 2
30 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresPrineville District1051
7 July 2009Missing data/not specified/undetermined430 acresPrineville DistrictRAPIDS
3 July 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined3,941 acresPrineville District0291 SAYERS
22 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined55 acresPrineville District0447
28 May 2016Missing data/not specified/undetermined74 acresPrineville District0118

Every fire recorded in Sherman County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of John and Helen Moore House: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Hockman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hockman PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Lone RockStonePast Producer
Lone Rock PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Mp 24 Sherman HwyStonePast Producer
Mp 24 Sherman HwyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Sherman County

Storms near this property

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Moro, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 hail. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
September 2013HailMoro-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Sherman 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Sherman County Courthouse2.9 miles1998
DeMoss Springs Park5.8 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94000806 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Sherman CountyAll 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.