Built in 1848 (Carpenter Gothic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
From the record
“Beeks House, located near Forest Grove, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Jacob Beeks travelled with his wife to Oregon and built this house in multiple stages starting with the first part in 1848.”
Wikipedia article Silas Jacob N. Beeks House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 51 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1984 · category: Building · built in 1848, Carpenter Gothic, by Jacob Beeks.
National Register reference number.84003100- 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
9 within 5 miles
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
9 workings within 5 miles of Silas Jacob N. Beeks House: 5 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Forest Grove, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2018: 1 heavy rain, 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.
Multiple greenhouse structures were damaged at a farm on Thatcher Road. Witness accounts also confirmed a tornado. The tornado was likely on the ground for about 30 seconds to 1 minute.
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 miles
Other 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.
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.
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