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One of 120 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 1981 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Frederick Bents House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Bents, Frederick, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 22776 Bents Rd., NE, Aurora, 97002
- When was it listed? December 1981
- Category. building
- Census division. Hubbard
- Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
- National Register reference number. 81000502 - 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
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Frederick Bents House in 2017, burning under an acre 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 August 2017 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | FERNWOOD GRASS |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 30 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Frederick Bents House: 23 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon State Hwy Div 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Butteville | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Butteville Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Paraguay Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Albert Troutman | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Albert Troutman Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| City of Wilsonville | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| City of Wilsonville | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
13 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aurora, the town this property stands in, in 13 storm reports between 2005 and 2025: 12 flood, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2008 | Lightning | Aurora | $5,000 | A lightning strike damaged electrical and computer equipment at a sewage treatment plant, causing a back-up in sewage treatment and discharge, as well as extensive damage. |
| February 2025 | Flood | Aurora | - | Pudding River at Aurora. Reached minor flood (22 ft) 2/25 2300 PST. Peaked at 23.04 ft 2/26 at 1500. Fell below flood 2/28 midnight. |
| April 2019 | Flood | Aurora | - | The Pudding River at Aurora crested at 22.7 feet around 4 AM on April 11th, which is 0.7 foot above flood stage. |
| February 2017 | Flood | Aurora | - | Heavy rain caused the Pudding River near Aurora to flood. The river crested at 24.16 feet, which is 2.16 feet above flood stage. |
| February 2014 | Flood | Aurora | - | The Pudding River at Aurora reached flood stage at 1130 AM on February 16th 2014. The river crested at 22.4 feet at 500 AM on February 17th, and fell below flood level at 930 AM PST on February 18th. |
| January 2011 | Flood | Aurora | - | Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoff to produce flooding on the Pudding River. The Pudding River at Aurora crested at 23.3 feet on January 19th at 13:30 PST. |
| December 2010 | Flood | Aurora | - | Heavy rainfall over the area caused the Pudding River to overflow its banks and flood farmland. |
| December 2010 | Flood | Aurora | - | Heavy rainfall over the area caused the Pudding River to overtop its banks and flood farmland. |
| January 2009 | Flood | Aurora | - | Heavy rainfall over the area caused the Pudding River to overtop its banks and flood farmland. |
| January 2007 | Flood | Aurora | - | The Pudding River at Aurora crested at 21.9 feet on January 5th. Flood stage for this river is 22.0 feet. |
| December 2006 | Flood | Aurora | - | The Pudding River at Aurora crested at 22.1 feet on the 16th; flood stage for this river is 22.0 feet. |
| January 2006 | Flood | Aurora | - | no account filed |
| December 2005 | Flood | Aurora | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | William Riley Scheurer House | 1.9 miles | 1981 |
 | Aurora Colony Historic District | 2.7 miles | 1974 |
| Champoeg Cemetery | 3.4 miles | 2004 | |
 | John Stauffer House and Barn | 3.8 miles | 1974 |
 | Casper Zorn Farmhouse | 3.8 miles | 1980 |
 | William Case Farm | 4.0 miles | 1973 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 81000502 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.