Hobson-Gehlen General Merchandise Store

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

One of 120 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Hobson--Gehlen General Merchandise Store - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 189 N. 2nd Ave., Stayton, 97383
When was it listed? May 2013
Category. building
Also known as. Downtown Area of Stayton MPS
Census division. Stayton
National Register reference number. 13000311 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Hobson-Gehlen General Merchandise Store between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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	19
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
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
9 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	7.2 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	FIR GROVE FRIE
8 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Santiam Unit	BOOS POND
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.0 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	FIR GROVE
3 September 2020	Debris and open burning	3.2 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	FERN RIDGE
3 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Santiam Unit	MEHAMA FIR
25 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Santiam Unit	SPENNER RD
25 September 2009	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Santiam Unit	TRIUMPH ROAD #2
23 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	SPENNER ROAD PILES

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Hobson-Gehlen General Merchandise Store: 10 past producers, 6 producers, 3 occurrences. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Hink Farm	Platinum	Occurrence
Iron Occurrence	Iron, Manganese	Occurrence
Sublimity Weathered Gravel	Clay	Occurrence
Stayton Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hagel Rock	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Stayton Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Marion 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

3 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
Deidrich Building	under 500 feet	2006
Beauchamp Building	0.1 miles	2019
Charles and Martha Brown House	0.1 miles	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000311 in Record Group 79.
Marion County	All 120 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.