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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
Robert Witzel House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Witzel, Robert, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 6576 Joseph St., SE, Salem, 97317
- When was it listed? November 1979
- Category. building
- Census division. Salem
- National Register reference number. 79002123 - 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.
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 44 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 44 workings within 5 miles of Robert Witzel House: 26 past producers, 12 producers, 6 occurrences. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bauxite Waldo Hills | Aluminum, Iron, Titanium, Metal | Occurrence | Bauxite, Gibbsite | |
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Waldo Hills Bauxite | Aluminum, Titanium, Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Basalt Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Turner Sand and Gravel Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Clay Mine | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Macleay Clay | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Macleay Clay | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Peterson | Clay | Occurrence | ||
| Peterson | Clay | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
7 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Salem, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 3 funnel cloud, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1996 | Thunderstorm Wind | Salem | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2009 | Thunderstorm Wind | Salem | $2,000 | A report called in by a former spotter, strong gusty winds brought numerous trees down along Hwy. 22. Other reports from this storm included wind gusts strong enough to snap Cottonwood tree branches estimated at 10 to 12 inches in diameter along Hwy. 214. |
| June 2023 | Funnel Cloud | Salem | - | A National Weather Service Skywarn Spotter observed a funnel cloud south of Salem. |
| May 2007 | Hail | Salem | - | Reported residents estimated half an inch accumulations on the ground. |
| December 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Salem | - | Immediately after a thunderstorm with frequent lightning and small hail, a small tornado touched down. The tornado crossed an acre and a half of floodwater up to three feet deep and sucked all the water up into the funnel. The tornado continued on and picked up a 12-inch diameter cedar tree and tossed it into a barn. The tornado then changed direction and picked up an RV and threw it on its side. |
| October 2003 | Funnel Cloud | Salem | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Salem | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Delaney-Edwards House | 3.7 miles | 2004 |
 | Oregon State Forester's Office Building | 5.1 miles | 1982 |
 | Samuel Adolph House | 5.2 miles | 1978 |
 | Oregon State Hospital Historic District | 5.3 miles | 2008 |
 | Lee Mission Cemetery | 5.7 miles | 1978 |
 | C. C. Stratton House | 5.8 miles | 1984 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 79002123 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.
- 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.