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Photograph of Delaney-Edwards House
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Delaney-Edwards House

Built in 1845 (vernacular architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

One of 120 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 2004 · category: Building · built in 1845, vernacular architecture.

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.
  • Listed as. Delaney--Edwards House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 4292 Delaney Rd. SE, Salem, 97317
  • When was it listed? July 2004
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Salem
  • When was it built? 1845
  • Architectural style. vernacular architecture
  • National Register reference number. 04000729 - 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 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Delaney-Edwards House in 2012, burning about 1 acre 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
Recreation and ceremony1

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 October 2012Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersRIVERHAVEN

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 45 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 45 workings within 5 miles of Delaney-Edwards House: 21 past producers, 12 producers, 11 occurrences, 1 prospect. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
30-Acre RanchIron, Titanium, Metal, AluminumOccurrenceBauxite
Copper OccurrenceCopperOccurrence
Entress FarmTitanium, Metal, Aluminum, IronOccurrenceBauxite
Entress FarmAluminum, Clay, Iron, TitaniumOccurrence
Salem Hills BauxiteAluminum, Iron, Titanium, Metal, LithiumOccurrence1945
Salem Hills BauxiteAluminum, Silica, Titanium, Iron, Water, Free, Phosphorus-PhosphatesProspect1945
Waldo Hills BauxiteAluminum, Titanium, IronOccurrence
Bauxite ProspectAluminum, Iron, Titanium, MetalOccurrenceBauxite
Bauxite Waldo HillsAluminum, Iron, Titanium, MetalOccurrenceBauxite, Gibbsite
Frohmader QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this property

7 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salem, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 3 funnel cloud, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
April 1996Thunderstorm WindSalem$20,000no account filed
June 2009Thunderstorm WindSalem$2,000A report called in by a former spotter, strong gusty winds brought numerous trees down along Hwy. 22. Other reports from this storm included wind gusts strong enough to snap Cottonwood tree branches estimated at 10 to 12 inches in diameter along Hwy. 214.
June 2023Funnel CloudSalem-A National Weather Service Skywarn Spotter observed a funnel cloud south of Salem.
May 2007HailSalem-Reported residents estimated half an inch accumulations on the ground.
December 2006Tornado (F0)Salem-Immediately after a thunderstorm with frequent lightning and small hail, a small tornado touched down. The tornado crossed an acre and a half of floodwater up to three feet deep and sucked all the water up into the funnel. The tornado continued on and picked up a 12-inch diameter cedar tree and tossed it into a barn. The tornado then changed direction and picked up an RV and threw it on its side.
October 2003Funnel CloudSalem-no account filed
June 2001Funnel CloudSalem-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
Robert Witzel House3.7 miles1979
James Mechlin Anderson House5.8 miles1979
Smith-Ohmart House6.1 miles1979
Frederick S. Lamport House6.1 miles1991
Oregon State Forester's Office Building6.3 miles1982
Hamilton Campbell House6.3 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04000729 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marion CountyAll 120 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.