Dr. John E. and Mary D. Davidson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Polk County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Davidson, Dr. John E. and Mary D., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 887 Monmouth St., Independence, 97351
When was it listed? February 1985
Category. building
Census division. Monmouth-Independence
National Register reference number. 85000371 - 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 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Dr. John E. and Mary D. Davidson House between 2002 and 2012, burning about 1 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
Debris and open burning	1
Other causes	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
1 September 2012	Other causes	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BALLARD ROAD
7 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Philomath Unit	LLOYD DAY
2 November 2002	Debris and open burning	1.2 acres	Dallas Unit	BALLARD RD.

Every fire recorded in Polk County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Dr. John E. and Mary D. Davidson House: 10 past producers, 10 producers. 10 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Krauger Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Krauger Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Wigrich-Pomeroy Bar	Stone	Past Producer
Wigrich-Pomeroy Bar	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hanna Ranch	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Hanna Ranch Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Swope Bar	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Polk County

Storms near this property

1 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Independence, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2003: 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
June 2003	Tornado (F1)	Independence	-	According to a report from the public, a tornado touched down for approximately 5 minutes near Independence. No damage was reported.

Every storm recorded in Polk County

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 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Kersey C. Eldridge House	0.1 miles	1988
Independence Historic District	0.3 miles	1989
J. A. Wheeler House	0.4 miles	1986
Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church	0.4 miles	1987
James S. and Jennie M. Cooper House	0.4 miles	1988
Independence National Bank	0.6 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85000371 in Record Group 79.
Polk County	All 33 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.