Amos Cook House

Built in 1853. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

One of 84 National Register listings published here for Yamhill County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1853.

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.
Listed as. Cook, Amos, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. NW of Dayton on OR 233, Dayton, 97114
When was it listed? December 1974
Category. building
Census division. Dayton-Amity
When was it built? 1853
National Register reference number. 74001726 - 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

4 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Amos Cook House between 2012 and 2018, burning about 37 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
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
6 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	GUNCLUB RD. FIRE
21 August 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	22 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	POVERTY FIRE
18 July 2015	Misuse of fire by a minor	13 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	GRANDHAVEN FIRE
6 October 2012	Smoking	1.5 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	FRENCH FIRE

Every fire recorded in Yamhill County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Amos Cook House: 11 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Crabtree Traprock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Dayton Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dayton Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Dorsey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dorsey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Penland Bar Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Penland Bar Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Yamhill 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
James M. and Paul R. Kelty House	0.5 miles	1982
Alfred P. Fletcher Farmhouse	0.5 miles	1980
Evangelical Church of Lafayette	0.6 miles	2002
Yamhill River Lock and Dam	0.7 miles	1991
Francis Fletcher House	1.0 miles	1975
Joseph Mattey House	1.0 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001726 in Record Group 79.
Yamhill County	All 84 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.