Reese and Redman General Merchandise Store

Built in 1885. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

From the record

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Umatilla County · listed in 1994 · category: Building · built in 1885.

Sources: 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. 130 S. Main St., Adams, 97810
When was it listed? August 1994
Category. building
Census division. Athena
When was it built? 1885
National Register reference number. 94000811 - 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

19 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Reese and Redman General Merchandise Store between 1992 and 2018, burning about 582 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Smoking	1
Debris and open burning	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
8 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	40 acres	Umatilla Agency	BLAKELY
3 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Umatilla Agency	UNION PACIFIC
9 August 2003	Equipment and vehicle use	10 acres	Umatilla Agency	ROTHROCK R
8 August 2008	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Umatilla Agency	RAINVILLE
5 August 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Umatilla Agency	JOHNLEY ROAD
24 August 2016	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Umatilla Agency	DUFF
22 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	21 acres	Umatilla Agency	HOMLY
2 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	30 acres	Umatilla Agency	MANN ROAD

Every fire recorded in Umatilla County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Reese and Redman General Merchandise Store: 5 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Rogers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Rogers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Catron Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Catron Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Mccormmach	Stone	Past Producer
Mccormmach Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Umatilla County

Storms near this property

3 since 2008

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Adams, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2008 and 2020: 1 funnel cloud, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2009	Hail	Adams	-	Penny to nickel sized hail covered ground on Highway 11 at milepost 14.
May 2008	Funnel Cloud	Adams	-	NWS employee observed a funnel cloud that was 3/4 of the way to the ground just northeast of Adams.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Adams	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Umatilla 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
Adams Odd Fellows Hall	under 500 feet	1994
M. L. Watts House	4.8 miles	1988
Greasewood Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church	4.9 miles	1988
Weston Commercial Historic District	7.5 miles	1982
Weston School	7.5 miles	2011
Isham Saling House	7.5 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 94000811 in Record Group 79.
Umatilla County	All 43 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.