BlockFrom the record
One of 39 National Register listings published here for Whitman County · listed in 1988 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Gustave Heilsberg Farm
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
The listing
- Listed as. Heilsberg, Gustave, Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. Rt. 2, Colfax, 99111
- When was it listed? September 1988
- Category. district
- Also known as. Grain Production Properties in Eastern Washington MPS
- Census division. LaCrosse
- National Register reference number. 88001534 - 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.
Mines and quarries near this property
5 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Gustave Heilsberg Farm: 5 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Mcneilly Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Sanders Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
7 since 1997Regional 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 |
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
3 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | US Post Office-Colfax Main | 7.7 miles | 1991 |
| Whitman County Library | 7.8 miles | 2021 | |
 | James A. Perkins House | 8.0 miles | 1972 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 88001534 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.
- 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.