Central Building

Built in 1915 (Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Curry County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1915, Colonial Revival architecture.

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.
Address. 703 Chetco Ave., Brookings, 97415
When was it listed? April 1980
Category. building
Census division. Brookings
When was it built? 1915
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 80003309 - 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Central Building between 1992 and 2019, burning about 165 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 1 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	28
Recreation and ceremony	19
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Natural	5
Smoking	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Fireworks	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	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 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gold Beach Unit	RAINBOW ROCK
5 September 2015	Smoking	2.0 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	RAINBOW ROCK RD
3 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Gold Beach Unit	FERRY CREEK
29 September 2004	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Gold Beach Unit	WIMMER ROAD
28 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Gold Beach Unit	CARPENTERVILLE
27 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Gold Beach Unit	SPORTHAVEN BEACH
24 September 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Gold Beach Unit	LUNDEEN LANE
23 September 1994	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Gold Beach Unit	APPLE ALLEY

Every fire recorded in Curry 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 Central Building: 24 past producers, 11 producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Boron-Borates. 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
Lone Ranch Priceite	Boron-Borates	Past Producer	Unknown
Campbell Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Joe Hall Property	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Campbell Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Cubic Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Curry County

Storms near this property

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Brookings, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2002: 1 wildfire, 1 tornado. 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
November 2002	Tornado (F0)	Brookings	$500,000	A spotter called at 1500 PST on 11/7 and reported the waterspout/tornado that occurred 9 hours earlier.
October 1999	Wildfire	Brookings	-	See below.

Every storm recorded in Curry 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80003309 in Record Group 79.
Curry County	All 12 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.