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Photograph of Beulah Methodist Episcopal Church
Photograph by 46percent, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Beulah Methodist Episcopal Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Polk 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. 242 North Main, Falls City, 97344
  • When was it listed? December 2002
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Falls City
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 02001638 - 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Beulah Methodist Episcopal Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 41 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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 burning22
Equipment and vehicle use10
Recreation and ceremony8
Natural5
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Fireworks4
Smoking4
Other causes3
Arson/incendiarism2
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
9 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHIDDEN RANCH 2
9 September 2013Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersTREEHOUSE ROAD
8 September 2013Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersWESTON ROAD
8 September 1997Debris and open burning5.0 acresDallas UnitFALLS CITY #1
7 September 1996Debris and open burningunder an acreDallas UnitMCBEE RD.
6 September 2002Naturalunder an acreDallas UnitBERRY CREEK
4 September 2011Debris and open burningunder an acreDallas UnitCOOPER HOLLOW
28 September 1999Other causes2.0 acresDallas UnitGARDNER RD

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Beulah Methodist Episcopal Church: 7 past producers, 4 occurrences, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Limestone, General, Manganese, 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
Bailey PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Voigt QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Dallas ManganeseManganeseOccurrenceHausmannite
Dallas ProspectManganeseOccurrence1941
Kingwell & Mc Manners ProspectManganeseOccurrence
Bailey PitStonePast Producer
Bailey PitStonePast Producer
Bailey PitStoneProducer
Lime Products CoLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Lime Products Co. QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this property

3 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Falls City, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2006 and 2021: 2 heavy rain, 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 2021FloodFalls City-The Luckiamute River near Suver (SUVO3) rose above flood stage at 0005PST, crested at 31.29 feet, then fell below flood stage at 2200PST on the 14th. Flood stage is 27.0 feet. Major flood stage is 32.0 feet.
December 2007Heavy RainFalls City-Storm total precipitation was 10.70 inches.
November 2006Heavy RainFalls City-Recorded a 5-day total of 14.0 inches.

Every storm recorded in Polk 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
A.K. Wilson Building6.8 miles1998
Dallas Downtown Historic District6.8 miles2024
Dallas Tannery6.8 miles1980
Riley-Cutler House6.8 miles1980
Dallas Cinema6.8 miles2022

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 02001638 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Polk CountyAll 33 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.