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One of 120 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 1984 · category: Site · built in 1834.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Willamette Station Site, Methodist Mission in Oregon
Built in 1834. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The listing
- Address. Willamette Mission State Park, Gervais, 97026
- When was it listed? August 1984
- Category. site
- Census division. Salem
- When was it built? 1834
- National Register reference number. 84003040 - 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 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Willamette Station Site, Methodist Mission in Oregon in 2013, burning under an acre in total. 1 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 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 August 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | HWY 30 MP58#1 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 28 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Willamette Station Site, Methodist Mission in Oregon: 16 past producers, 12 producers. 12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finley Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Lake Marcyl Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Finley Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Lake Marcyl | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Noble Mountain Tree Farm Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Noble Mountain Tree Farm Quarry | Stone | Producer | ||
| Barnick Borrow | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Barnick Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Chapin Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Chapin Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
1 since 2014Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gervais, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2014: 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2014 | Funnel Cloud | Gervais | - | A couple of people reported a cold core funnel cloud between Woodburg and Gervais, OR around 145 pm. Some damage was reported in this area around the same time, but a NWS storm survey determined the damage was more consistent with straight line wind damage than from a funnel cloud. |
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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oliver Beers House | 1.2 miles | 1984 | |
 | Chemawa Indian School Site | 6.2 miles | 1992 |
 | Sam Brown House | 7.7 miles | 1974 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 84003040 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.