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John Phillips House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“John Phillips House is a historic 1853 vernacular Greek Revival house in the Spring Valley area of Polk County, Oregon, United States. It was built for pioneer John Phillips, who came to Oregon via the Oregon Trail in 1845.”

Wikipedia article John Phillips House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Polk County · listed in 1976 · 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.
  • Listed as. Phillips, John, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. NW of Salem on Spring Valley Rd., Salem, 97304
  • When was it listed? March 1976
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Salem
  • Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 76001588 - 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

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of John Phillips House between 2013 and 2017, burning under an acre in total. 1 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 use1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
18 August 2013Naturalunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersHWY 30 MP58#1
26 July 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSPENCER BUTTE

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 38 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of John Phillips House: 19 past producers, 17 producers, 2 occurrences. 17 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum, Titanium, Metal, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bauxite Chapman and Eola HillsAluminum, Titanium, Metal, IronOccurrenceBauxite, Gibbsite
Chapman and Eola Hills BauxiteAluminum, Titanium, IronOccurrence
Finley PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Freeman & Sons QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Lake Marcyl PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Unnamed PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Basalt QuarryStonePast Producer
Finley PitStonePast 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Spring Valley Presbyterian Church1.0 miles1974
Spring Valley School2.3 miles2018
Walter J. Domes House4.4 miles1990
Jesse and Julia Harritt House5.3 miles1999
Harrison Brunk House6.6 miles1975
West Salem City Hall, Old6.9 miles1990

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76001588 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Polk CountyAll 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.