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One of 120 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 1981 · category: Building · built in 1913.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
R. P. Boise Building
Built in 1913. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Boise, R. P., Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 217 State St., Salem, 97301
- When was it listed? December 1981
- Category. building
- Census division. Salem
- When was it built? 1913
- National Register reference number. 81000504 - 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
3 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of R. P. Boise Building between 1992 and 2017, burning under an acre in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 July 2017 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | SPENCER BUTTE |
| 20 July 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Ronde Tribes | W FRK SNAG |
| 20 July 1992 | Natural | under an acre | Grand Ronde Tribes | E FRK SNAG |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 68 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 68 workings within 5 miles of R. P. Boise Building: 37 past producers, 26 producers, 4 occurrences, 1 prospect. 26 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Uranium, Stone. 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 Chapman and Eola Hills | Aluminum, Titanium, Metal, Iron | Occurrence | Bauxite, Gibbsite | |
| Chapman and Eola Hills Bauxite | Aluminum, Titanium, Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Illahee Hill | Vanadium | Prospect | ||
| Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Hills Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Illahee Hill | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Uranium Occurrence | Uranium | Occurrence | ||
| Austin Borrow | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Austin Bottow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | S. A. Manning Building | under 500 feet | 1987 |
 | Bush-Breyman Block | under 500 feet | 1978 |
 | Bush and Brey Block and Annex | under 500 feet | 1981 |
 | Starkey-McCully Block | 0.1 miles | 1979 |
 | J. K. Gill Building | 0.1 miles | 1980 |
 | South First National Bank Block | 0.1 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 81000504 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.