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Photograph of J. C. Penney Building
Photograph by M.O. Stevens, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

J.C. Penney Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

One of 84 National Register listings published here for Yamhill County · listed in 2007 · 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. 516 E. First St., Newberg, 97132
  • When was it listed? June 2007
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Newberg
  • National Register reference number. 07000555 - 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

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of J.C. Penney Building: 21 past producers, 9 producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Newberg River RockSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Newberg River Rock ProductsSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Newburg Sand & Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Newburg Sand & Gravel PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Chehalem Mountain PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crabtree Traprock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Neberg/Fogarty QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Renne QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Yamhill County

Storms near this property

3 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newberg, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2002 and 2014: 2 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
October 2014Funnel CloudNewberg-A member of the public noticed a cold core funnel in Newberg Oregon in the afternoon, that showed rotation for a few minutes.
April 2003Funnel CloudNewberg-no account filed
September 2002Thunderstorm WindNewberg-no account filed

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
Union Blockunder 500 feet2000
Cameo Theatre0.1 miles2018
Charles K. Spaulding House0.2 miles1994
Jesse Edwards House0.2 miles1980
John T. Smith House0.2 miles1984
Dr. Henry J. Minthorn House (Herbert Hoover House)0.3 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000555 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.
  • 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.