West Union Baptist Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“West Union Baptist Church is a Baptist congregation and historic church structure in West Union, Oregon, United States.”
Wikipedia article West Union Baptist Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. W. Union Rd., West Union, 97124
When was it listed? July 1974
Category. building
Census division. North Plains
National Register reference number. 74001725 - 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of West Union Baptist Church between 1992 and 2016, burning about 23 acres 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
Debris and open burning	5
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Other causes	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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 1992	Other causes	2.0 acres	Forest Grove District	MASON HILL #2
21 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Forest Grove District	SHELTERED NOOK BURN
2 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Columbia City Unit	ROCKY PT RD#1
2 September 1992	Other causes	2.0 acres	Forest Grove District	MASON HILL #1
30 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Forest Grove District	MCNAMEE RD
29 August 2016	Smoking	8.6 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	MASON HILL RD FIRE
26 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	ROCK CREEK BRUSH FIRE
15 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Forest Grove District	CORN PASS VAN FIRE

Every fire recorded in Washington County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of West Union Baptist Church: 9 past producers, 4 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Aluminum, Iron, Titanium, Metal. 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
Bauxite Tualatin Mountains	Aluminum, Iron, Titanium, Metal	Occurrence
Tualatin Mountains Bauxite	Aluminum, Titanium, Iron	Prospect
Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Clay	Producer
Hoyt Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Jackson Creek Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Krueger Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Multnomah County Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Beet Bend Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Beet Bend Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Washington 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
Imbrie Farm	1.7 miles	1977
Shute-Meierjurgen Farmstead	2.0 miles	2018
Richard and Helen Rice House	2.0 miles	2006
Harold Wass Ray House	3.1 miles	1994
Malcolm McDonald House	3.2 miles	2015
Manning-Kamna Farm	3.9 miles	2007

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001725 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington County	All 51 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.