Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
From the record
“The Wayne Morse Family Farm was the home of Oregon's long-time United States Senator, Wayne Morse. The 27-acre (110,000 m2) site is located in Eugene, Oregon and was originally a working farm called Edgewood Farm.”
Wikipedia article Wayne Morse Family Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 123 National Register listings published here for Lane County · listed in 1999 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.99000066- 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
158 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 158 fires within 5 miles of Wayne Morse Farm
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 141 acres in total. 6 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
83
Equipment and vehicle use
25
Debris and open burning
13
Fireworks
9
Recreation and ceremony
6
Power generation/transmission/distribution
6
Natural
6
Smoking
4
Other causes
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
23 workings within 5 miles of Wayne Morse Farm: 14 past producers, 7 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect.
7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Eugene, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 2 tornado, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 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.
A Lane Community College Official witnessed a rain wrapped tornado that significantly damaged three vehicles. One vehicle was moved around 125 feet and ended upside down on a berm in a parking lot. Estimated wind speeds of 65 to 85 mph is needed to move a car which rates the tornado as an EF0.
Strong winds from a band of thunderstorms brought around 8 large trees down. Some of these trees damaged power poles or took down power lines as they fell, and resulted in power outages. A stop sign was blown down, part of a roof blew off, as well as two chicken coup roofs. Part of a chain link fence form a construction site blew onto 5th Street and blocked the southbound lanes.
Heavy persistent rainfall resulted in localized flooding at several of Eugene parks and creeks impacting Alton Baker Park, Delta Ponds, and along the Fern Ridge Path. A trained spotter reports lots of ponding of water near Fairmount Blvd and E 19th Ave, downhill from Hendricks Park. Additionally, another trained spotter reports parts of Amazon Park Trail underwater in the area of E 23rd Ave and Willamette St. due to small stream/river flooding.
Thunderstorms produced frequent lightning in the Eugene and Springfield area early in the morning. Lightning struck several power transformers in Eugene and Cottage Grove, resulting in power outages to 300 Eugene residences and 50 in Cottage Grove.
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.
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.
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