Heye H. and Eva Meyer Farmstead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.

From the record

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 2015 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 7 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Meyer, Heye H. and Eva, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 13705 NE. 50th Ave., Vancouver, 98686
When was it listed? January 2015
Category. building
Census division. Vancouver
National Register reference number. 14001142 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Heye H. and Eva Meyer Farmstead between 1992 and 2019, burning about 46 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning	18
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	4
Fireworks	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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 2015	Debris and open burning	2.4 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WEST 50TH AVE
7 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
18 September 1995	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 September 1994	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
14 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	148TH STREET
14 September 2016	Debris and open burning	3.1 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SHORTYS FIRE

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Heye H. and Eva Meyer Farmstead: 13 past producers, 2 producers, 2 prospects, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Clay, Stone. 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	Recorded
Brush Prairie Placer	Gold, Titanium, Iron	Prospect
Mill Plain Pit	Stone	Producer
Wilde	Clay	Past Producer
Bokemier Iron Deposit	Iron	Prospect
Howland Acres Prospect	Iron	Occurrence	Limonite
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Homan Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Salmon Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this property

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Vancouver, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 3 flood, 2 funnel cloud, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 5 injuries. 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
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Vancouver	5 hurt, $25,000	no account filed
May 1997	Tornado (F0)	Vancouver	$10,000	A weak tornado briefly touched down in the Walnut Grove area of Vancouver, near I-205 and 4th Plain. A car was damaged, the roofing of a house was damaged, and a small shed was blown over.
August 2024	Funnel Cloud	Vancouver	-	A short-lived funnel cloud was observed close to the Columbia River in Vancouver, WA by multiple people in Vancouver, Washington and from across the river in Portland Oregon.
May 2018	Flood	Vancouver	-	The Columbia River at Vancouver crested several times above flood stage May 17 through May 19th, with the highest crest at 16.14 feet around 8:15 AM on May 17th. This is 0.14 foot above flood stage. No damage was reported.
March 2017	Flood	Vancouver	-	Recent heavy rains and snowmelt from the Cascades and eastern Washington led to rising river levels on the Columbia River. The river crested at 17.59 ft on March 30th, which is 1.59 feet above flood stage. The river remained above flood stage until April 3rd.
April 2017	Flood	Vancouver	-	To start off April, the Columbia River gauge at Vancouver was up around 17.22 ft, which is 1.22 ft above flood stage. On April 3rd, the river finally dropped below flood stage.
June 2013	Funnel Cloud	Vancouver	-	A funnel cloud was observed about 2 miles WNW of the Portland International airport. The observer estimated that it extended 200 to 300 feet below the cloud base. The funnel cloud lasted approximately 5 minutes.
August 2005	Heavy Rain	Vancouver	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clark 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
Glenwood School	1.8 miles	1992
Clark County Poor Farm-Southwestern Washington Experiment Station	3.3 miles	2013
Anderson-Beletski Prune Farm	4.5 miles	1986
Lambert School	5.1 miles	1989
Sara Store	5.1 miles	1995
Covington House	5.2 miles	1972

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14001142 in Record Group 79.
Clark County	All 45 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.