James Mechlin Anderson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

One of 120 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.

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. Anderson, James Mechlin, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Off I-5, Jefferson, 97352
When was it listed? October 1979
Category. building
Census division. Jefferson
Architectural style. Greek Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 79002118 - 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

10 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of James Mechlin Anderson House between 1992 and 2017, burning about 196 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	5
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	2

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
18 August 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge	FIELD 9
1 August 1993	Recreation and ceremony	4.0 acres	Northwest Oregon District	WELLS ISLE
9 July 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BARRETT CREEK
9 July 2000	Smoking	under an acre	William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge	WINTEL RD
28 July 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	175 acres	Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge	GOOSE1988
25 July 1994	Equipment and vehicle use	12 acres	Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge	MOHOFF
30 May 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge	ANKENYFIRE
3 February 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	Ankeny National Wildlife Refuge	ATV FLD 21

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of James Mechlin Anderson House: 17 past producers, 12 producers, 5 occurrences, 1 unknown. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. 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	Recorded
Entress Farm	Titanium, Metal, Aluminum, Iron	Occurrence	Bauxite
Entress Farm	Aluminum, Clay, Iron, Titanium	Occurrence
Salem Hills Bauxite	Aluminum, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Lithium	Occurrence	1945
Unnamed Prospect	Copper	Unknown
Buena Vista Clay	Clay	Occurrence
Buena Vista Clay	Clay	Occurrence
Davidson Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Davidson Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Forslund Rock Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Forslund Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this property

12 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Jefferson, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 7 flood, 2 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
October 2018	Tornado (EF0)	Jefferson	$200	There was damage to multiple small shrubby trees just north of the railroad track along Libby Ln. There was also a sign knocked over at the NW corner of Libby Ln and Jefferson-Marion Rd, but whether or not it was caused by a tornado could not be determined. The tornado was likely on the ground for one minute or less.
December 2020	Flood	Jefferson	-	The gage on the Santiam River at Jefferson (JFFO3) crested at 15.3 feet. Flood stage is 15.0 feet. No damage was reported.
September 2020	Heavy Rain	Jefferson	-	Lots of precipitation.
April 2019	Flood	Jefferson	-	The Santiam River at Jefferson crested at 15.8 feet around 11 PM on April 8th, which is 0.8 foot above flood stage.
September 2015	Funnel Cloud	Jefferson	-	A Funnel Cloud was spotted by a driver driving on I-5 around noon.
January 2011	Flood	Jefferson	-	Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoff to produce flooding on the Santiam River. The Santiam River at Jefferson crested at 15.4 feet on January 17th at 04:27 PST.
January 2009	Flood	Jefferson	-	Heavy rain caused the Santiam River near Jefferson to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas.
December 2007	Heavy Rain	Jefferson	-	Storm total precipitation was 4.58 inches.
November 2006	Flood	Jefferson	-	The Santiam River near Jefferson crested at 15.2 feet on November 7th, with flood stage at 15.0 feet.
April 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Jefferson	-	Thunderstorms produced pea-sized hail in the Central Willamette Valley from mid-day until evening. Hail piled up along Interstate 5 from Jefferson to Corvallis, which caused slippery roads. Several accidents were reported, but no serious injuries were reported.
January 2006	Flood	Jefferson	-	no account filed
December 2005	Flood	Jefferson	-	no account filed

Every storm 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

5 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
Hamilton Campbell House	1.4 miles	1979
Jacob Conser House	4.3 miles	1974
Jefferson Methodist Church	4.3 miles	1980
Witten, T.M., and Emma, Drug Store-House	4.4 miles	1999
Delaney-Edwards House	5.8 miles	2004

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002118 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.