Grand Ronde Rail Depot

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

From the record

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Polk County · listed in 2012 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 8615 Grand Ronde Rd., Grand Ronde, 97347
When was it listed? December 2012
Category. building
Census division. Willamina
National Register reference number. 12001092 - 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.

Fires near this property

59 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 59 fires within 5 miles of Grand Ronde Rail Depot between 1992 and 2020, burning about 70 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 4 were 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	24
Equipment and vehicle use	15
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Recreation and ceremony	3
Natural	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	2

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
6 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Dallas Unit	MYSTERY FIRE
4 September 2009	Smoking	under an acre	Dallas Unit	FIRE HALL
23 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Dallas Unit	FIRE HALL ROAD
20 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Dallas Unit	FORT HILL
2 September 2008	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Dallas Unit	WALLACE BRIDGE
16 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Dallas Unit	POWERLINE ROAD
13 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Dallas Unit	GOLD CREEK 2
11 September 2007	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Dallas Unit	GOLD 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 Grand Ronde Rail Depot: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Aluminum. 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	Recorded
Collins Ranch	Aluminum	Occurrence	Bauxite
Collins Ranch	Aluminum, Clay	Occurrence
Grande Ronde Clay Deposit	Clay	Past Producer
Grande Ronde Clay Deposit	Clay	Producer
Gold Creek Pit and Plant	Stone	Past Producer
Gold Creek Pit and Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lower Agency Creek Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Lower Agency Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12001092 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.