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Photograph of Evangelical Church of Lafayette
Photograph by M.O. Stevens, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Evangelical Church of Lafayette

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

One of 84 National Register listings published here for Yamhill County · listed in 2002 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 605 Market St., Lafayette, 97127
  • When was it listed? October 2002
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Newberg
  • National Register reference number. 02001278 - 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

5 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 5 fires within 5 miles of Evangelical Church of Lafayette between 2012 and 2018, burning about 37 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
Equipment and vehicle use2
Misuse of fire by a minor1
Smoking1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
6 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersGUNCLUB RD. FIRE
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersWESTSIDE DITCH FIRE
21 August 2018Equipment and vehicle use22 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersPOVERTY FIRE
18 July 2015Misuse of fire by a minor13 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersGRANDHAVEN FIRE
6 October 2012Smoking1.5 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersFRENCH FIRE

Every fire recorded in Yamhill 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 Evangelical Church of Lafayette: 11 past producers, 7 producers. 7 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
Crabtree Traprock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dayton Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dayton Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Dorsey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Dorsey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Penland Bar PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Penland Bar PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Yamhill County

Storms near this property

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lafayette, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2012: 1 flood. 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
January 2012FloodLafayette$2,000,000Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoff caused the South Yamhill River at McMinnville to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The South Yamhill River crested at 54 feet on January 19th at 3 pm PST, 4 feet above flood stage.

Every storm recorded in Yamhill 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
James M. and Paul R. Kelty House0.2 miles1982
Alfred P. Fletcher Farmhouse0.3 miles1980
Amos Cook House0.6 miles1974
Joseph Mattey House1.0 miles1977
Yamhill River Lock and Dam1.2 miles1991
Francis Fletcher House1.6 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02001278 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yamhill CountyAll 84 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.