Independent School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 2013 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 25381 SW. Airport Ave., Benton, 97370
When was it listed? May 2013
Category. building
Census division. Southwest Benton
National Register reference number. 13000332 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Independent School between 1992 and 2019, burning about 40 acres in total. 6 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	26
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Smoking	7
Natural	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Other causes	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
6 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	DECKER RIDGE STRIKE
23 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Philomath Unit	DECKER ROAD
20 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BRUMFIELD LN
15 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Philomath Unit	BEAVER CREEK
15 September 1994	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8.0 acres	Philomath Unit	NEWTON CREEK
9 August 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	GRANGE HALL FIRE
9 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	PETERSON RD.
9 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Philomath Unit	RESERVOIR ROAD

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Independent School: 10 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Platinum, Gold, Silver. 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
Transtion Metals Corp	Platinum, Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Griffin	Stone	Past Producer
Griffin Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Neuman Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Von Sild Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wicks Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Gellatly,Andrew L	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gellatly,Andrew L	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Benton 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
Philomath College	3.0 miles	1972
George W. Bethers House	3.1 miles	1997
Peter Rickard Farmstead	3.5 miles	1983
Willamette Community and Grange Hall	5.2 miles	2009
John Fiechter House	5.5 miles	1985
Irish Bend Covered Bridge No. 14169	5.7 miles	2013

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000332 in Record Group 79.
Benton County	All 56 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.