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Photograph of Lame-Smith House
Photograph by 46percent, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Smith, James Alexander, and Elmarion, Barn and Lame-Smith House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.

From the record

“The Lame-Smith House and the Sydney and Gertrude Smith Barn, about one mile northwest of Halsey, Oregon, are historic structures that were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.”

Wikipedia article Lame-Smith House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Linn County · listed in 1999 · 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. Smith, James Alexander, and Elmarion, Barn and Lame--Smith House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 28020 Powerline Rd., Halsey, 97348
  • When was it listed? July 1999
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Barns of Linn County, Oregon MPS
  • Census division. Harrisburg
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 99000783 - 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

1 since 2018

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Smith, James Alexander, and Elmarion, Barn and Lame-Smith House in 2018, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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
5 July 2018Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWilliam L. Finley National Wildlife RefugeORWVR-FY18-WF-SNAGBOAT FIRE 2018

Every fire recorded in Linn County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Smith, James Alexander, and Elmarion, Barn and Lame-Smith House: 8 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Saddle Butte PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Saddle ButteStonePast Producer
Slate PitStonePast Producer
Slate PitStonePast Producer
Conte SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Conte SiteSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in Linn County

Storms near this property

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Halsey, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2025: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2025Funnel CloudHalsey-Member of the public submitted photos of a funnel cloud that they saw near Brownsville, OR (exit 216 on Interstate 5) Feb 1st at 11:09 am PST.

Every storm recorded in Linn 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
United Presbyterian Church of Shedd3.9 miles1998
Porter-Brasfield House3.9 miles1980
Boston Flour Mill4.3 miles1979
William Cochran Barn6.6 miles1999
Ross-Averill House6.7 miles1991
John M. Moyer House6.7 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 99000783 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Linn CountyAll 73 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.