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One of 33 National Register listings published here for Polk County · listed in 2018 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Spring Valley School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 8295 Spring Valley Rd. NW, Zena, 97304
- When was it listed? February 2018
- Category. building
- Census division. Salem
- National Register reference number. 100002097 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Spring Valley School in 2013, burning under an acre in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | HWY 30 MP58#1 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 38 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Spring Valley School: 20 past producers, 18 producers. 18 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A. Anderson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Anderson Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Finley Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Lake Marcyl Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| A Anderson | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Anderson Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Finley Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Lake Marcyl | Stone | Past Producer |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | John Phillips House | 2.3 miles | 1976 |
| John Phillips House | 2.3 miles | 1976 |
 | Spring Valley Presbyterian Church | 3.2 miles | 1974 |
 | Walter J. Domes House | 5.3 miles | 1990 |
 | Jesse and Julia Harritt House | 6.3 miles | 1999 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100002097 in Record Group 79. |
| Polk County | All 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.