Photograph of Sarah Helmick State Recreation Site — Photograph by M.O. Stevens, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sarah Helmick State Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2022.

From the record

“Sarah Helmick State Recreation Site, also known as Helmick Park, is a state park located south of Monmouth, in Polk County, Oregon, United States. It is located on the floodplain of the Luckiamute River and is forested by Bigleaf Maple, Douglas-fir, and Black Cottonwood trees, among other varieties.”
Wikipedia article Sarah Helmick State Recreation Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Polk County · listed in 2022 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 10485 Helmick Rd., Monmouth, 97361
When was it listed? May 2022
Category. district
Census division. Monmouth-Independence
National Register reference number. 100007759 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Sarah Helmick State Park between 2003 and 2005, 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
Debris and open burning	1
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
7 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Philomath Unit	LLOYD DAY
5 October 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Dallas Unit	BERRY CREEK

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Sarah Helmick State Park: 6 past producers, 4 producers, 2 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Krauger Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Krauger Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Buena Vista Clay	Clay	Occurrence
Buena Vista Clay	Clay	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Perry Mills Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Perry Mills Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pomroy Bar	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pomroy Bar	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this property

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monmouth, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2016: 2 funnel cloud. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
April 2016	Funnel Cloud	Monmouth	-	There were several reports and photos of a funnel cloud near Monmouth, Oregon.
April 2004	Funnel Cloud	Monmouth	-	no account filed

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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Parker School	1.2 miles	1989
George A. Wells Jr. House	4.1 miles	1981
Burford-Stanley House	4.6 miles	2022
Polk County Bank	4.7 miles	1986
Joseph and Priscilla Craven House	4.8 miles	1998
Graves-Fisher-Strong House	4.8 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100007759 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.
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.