BlockFrom the record
One of 33 National Register listings published here for Polk County · listed in 2025 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Salem Substation, Bonneville Power Administration
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- Address. 3105 Dallas Highway (OR 22), Salem, 97304
- When was it listed? April 2025
- Category. district
- Also known as. Bonneville Power Administration Pacific Northwest Transmission System MPS
- Census division. Salem
- National Register reference number. 100011672 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Salem Substation, Bonneville Power Administration in 2017, burning under an 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 |
|---|---|
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | SPENCER BUTTE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 47 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Salem Substation, Bonneville Power Administration: 25 past producers, 17 producers, 4 occurrences, 1 prospect. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Uranium. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bauxite Chapman and Eola Hills | Aluminum, Titanium, Metal, Iron | Occurrence | Bauxite, Gibbsite | |
| Chapman and Eola Hills Bauxite | Aluminum, Titanium, Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Illahee Hill | Vanadium | Prospect | ||
| Illahee Hill | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Tuff Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Uranium Occurrence | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Hills Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | 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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | West Salem City Hall, Old | 1.5 miles | 1990 |
 | Harrison Brunk House | 2.9 miles | 1975 |
 | Jesse and Julia Harritt House | 2.9 miles | 1999 |
 | Spring Valley Presbyterian Church | 6.0 miles | 1974 |
 | John Phillips House | 6.9 miles | 1976 |
| John Phillips House | 6.9 miles | 1976 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011672 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.