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One of 73 National Register listings published here for Linn County · listed in 1982 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Albany Downtown Commercial Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Williamette River, Montgomery, Washington, 5th Sts., Albany, 97321
- When was it listed? December 1982
- Category. district
- Census division. Albany
- National Register reference number. 82001509 - 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 29 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Albany Downtown Commercial Historic District: 16 past producers, 9 producers, 2 plants, 2 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Titanium, Metal, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Porcupine Mine | Gold | Past Producer | ||
| Smith-Butler | Iron, Titanium, Metal | Occurrence | ||
| Smith-Butler | Iron, Titanium | Occurrence | ||
| Albany B Plant Ti | Titanium, Metal | Plant | ||
| Albany Plant Ti | Titanium, Metal | Plant | 1968 | |
| Cox Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Parker Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Cox | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Cox Pit and Plant | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Parker | Stone | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
5 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Albany, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1994 and 2016: 2 funnel cloud, 1 tornado, 1 flood, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2007 | Hail | Albany | $5,000 | Half-inch hail fell, and was reported to be 2-3 inches deep. |
| March 1994 | Tornado (F0) | Albany | $500 | At 1440 PST a thunderstorm apparently spawned a small tornado near a shopping area in Albany. Several eyewitnesses reported seeing debris rotating up to about 80 feet above the ground as the mini-twister moved across an empty parking lot. As the cloud passed over a large puddle witnesses reported seeing the water sucked up into the funnel along with the rest of the swirling debris. The storm moved across the street to a thrift store where it blew a door open, scattered merchandise about, and blew a storefront window out onto the sidewalk. The entire episode lasted about 10 seconds. Five minutes later small hail fell. |
| April 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Albany | - | A trained spotter observed a funnel cloud along Interstate 5 around 10 miles south of Albany, Oregon. |
| May 2016 | Funnel Cloud | Albany | - | A trained spotter reported seeing a funnel cloud near Albany, Oregon. |
| January 2006 | Flood | Albany | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Flinn Block | under 500 feet | 1979 |
 | Albany Custom Mill | 0.1 miles | 1980 |
 | Thomas and Walter Monteith House | 0.2 miles | 1975 |
 | United Presbyterian Church and Rectory | 0.2 miles | 1979 |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church South | 0.2 miles | 1979 |
 | Alfred Dawson House | 0.3 miles | 1980 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 82001509 in Record Group 79. |
| Linn County | All 73 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.