James A. Perkins House

Built in 1885. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

One of 39 National Register listings published here for Whitman County · listed in 1972 · 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Perkins, James A., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. N. 623 Perkins St., Colfax, 99111
When was it listed? December 1972
Category. building
Census division. Colfax-Palouse
When was it built? 1885
National Register reference number. 72001283 - 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 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of James A. Perkins House in 2020, burning about 2,685 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,685 acres	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	MANNING RD

Every fire recorded in Whitman 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 James A. Perkins House: 7 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, 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
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Colfax	Clay	Past Producer
Colfax Quarry	Clay	Occurrence
Chestnut Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Cocking Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Faires Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Whitman County

Storms near this property

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Colfax, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2009: 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 1 heavy rain, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Colfax	$40,000	strong winds knocked trees down, crushing a convertible. only minor wheat damage.
January 2009	Flood	Colfax	$10,000	no account filed
January 2007	Flood	Colfax	$5,000	no account filed
August 2004	Hail	Colfax	$3,000	no account filed
May 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Colfax	$1,000	no account filed
June 2009	Flash Flood	Colfax	-	Water and mud was observed over North Palouse Road near the Golf Course.
May 1997	Heavy Rain	Colfax	-	flooding

Every storm recorded in Whitman 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

5 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
Florence Ferguson House	0.2 miles	2011
Whitman County Library	0.5 miles	2021
US Post Office-Colfax Main	0.7 miles	1991
Manning-Rye Covered Bridge	3.6 miles	1982
Gustave Heilsberg Farm	8.0 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72001283 in Record Group 79.
Whitman County	All 39 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.