Avery-Helm Historic District

Built in 1854. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The Avery-Helm Historic District comprises a primarily residential portion of central Corvallis, Oregon, United States. Located on several of Corvallis's earliest plats, the 122 historic houses remaining in the district present a window into the domestic aspects of the city's development from 1870 to 1949, providing a full industrial, socioeconomic, and architectural profile of that period.”
Wikipedia article Avery-Helm Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 2000 · category: District · built in 1854.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Avery--Helm Historic District - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Roughly bounded by SW 2nd, 6th, and Jefferson Sts. and OR 20/34 By-Pass, Corvallis, 97333
When was it listed? January 2000
Category. district
Census division. Corvallis
When was it built? 1854
National Register reference number. 99001716 - 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Avery-Helm Historic District between 1992 and 2018, burning about 106 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
Debris and open burning	10
Smoking	5
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Natural	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Fireworks	1
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2014	Misuse of fire by a minor	86 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	CHIP ROSS FIRE
28 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Philomath Unit	CHIP ROSS
25 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Philomath Unit	OAK CREEK
2 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Philomath Unit	OAK CREEK
2 September 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Philomath Unit	CRESENT VALLEY DR
1 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Philomath Unit	OAK CREEK
9 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Philomath Unit	RESERVOIR ROAD
6 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Philomath Unit	LEWISBERG AVE

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 40 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of Avery-Helm Historic District: 27 past producers, 13 producers. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Ag-Lime Plant	Calcium	Past Producer
Fisher Island Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Fisher Island Plant	Stone	Past Producer
Wicks Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Corvallis Brick & Tile	Clay	Past Producer
Corvallis Brick & Tile Pit	Clay	Producer
Corvallis Brick & Tile Works	Clay	Past Producer
Albany Rock-Truax	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Albany Rock-Truax	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this property

6 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Corvallis, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1996 and 2019: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 lightning. 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
July 2014	Lightning	Corvallis	$11,000	Abundant lightning resulted in around 1000 PGE customers without power in the Albany and Corvallis area. A public caller reported that a large tree struck from lightning fell onto a home.
April 2019	Flood	Corvallis	-	The Willamette River near Corvallis crested at 32.8 feet around 9 AM on April 10th, which is 2.8 feet above flood stage.
June 2009	Thunderstorm Wind	Corvallis	-	no account filed
January 2006	Flood	Corvallis	-	no account filed
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Corvallis	-	no account filed
May 1996	Funnel Cloud	Corvallis	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton 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
Burnap-Rickard House	0.1 miles	1984
Willamette Valley and Coast Railroad Depot- Corvallis	0.2 miles	1997
Jack Taylor House	0.2 miles	1981
James O. Wilson House	0.2 miles	1980
Poultry Building and Incubator House	0.2 miles	2006
Helm-Hout House	0.2 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 99001716 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benton County	All 56 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.