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One of 33 National Register listings published here for Polk County · listed in 2024 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Dallas Downtown Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- Address. Generally bounded by Washington, Church, Oak, and Jefferson streets., Dallas, 97338
- When was it listed? May 2024
- Category. district
- Census division. Dallas
- National Register reference number. 100010387 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
80 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Dallas Downtown Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 147 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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 | 30 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 23 |
| Other causes | 8 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2020 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | HIDDEN RANCH 2 |
| 8 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | WESTON ROAD |
| 7 September 2018 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | MOUNT PISGAH |
| 7 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Dallas Unit | MCBEE RD. |
| 6 September 2002 | Natural | under an acre | Dallas Unit | PIONEER ROAD |
| 5 September 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 25 acres | Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge | EAST BASKETT SLOUGH |
| 4 September 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Dallas Unit | COOPER HOLLOW |
| 4 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Dallas Unit | ORCHARD KNOB |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 31 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Dallas Downtown Historic District: 16 past producers, 11 producers, 4 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General, Manganese. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Dallas Manganese | Manganese | Occurrence | Hausmannite | |
| Dallas Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | 1941 | |
| Kingwell & Mc Manners Prospect | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Lime Products Co | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Lime Products Co. Quarry | Limestone, General | Producer | ||
| Oregon Portland Cement Co | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Oregon Portland Cement Co. | Limestone, General | Past Producer | ||
| Rickreall Creek Deposit | Limestone, General | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
2 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dallas, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1996 and 2007: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2007 | Heavy Rain | Dallas | - | A total accumulation of 1.91 inches was reported at Rockhouse RAWS. |
| January 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dallas | - | no account filed |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | A.K. Wilson Building | under 500 feet | 1998 |
 | Dallas Cinema | under 500 feet | 2022 |
| Dallas Tannery | 0.3 miles | 1980 | |
 | John W. Howell House | 6.4 miles | 1987 |
 | Graves-Fisher-Strong House | 6.5 miles | 1985 |
| Burford-Stanley House | 6.5 miles | 2022 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010387 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.
- 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.