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Photograph of Calvary Lutheran Church and Parsonage
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Calvary Lutheran Church & Parsonage

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

“Calvary Lutheran Church and Parsonage is a historic church building and parsonage in Silverton, Oregon, United States. The church is also known as the First Christian Church.”

Wikipedia article Calvary Lutheran Church and Parsonage (Silverton, Oregon), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 120 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 1985 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 314 Jersey St., Silverton, 97381
  • When was it listed? June 1985
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Silverton
  • Architectural style. Gothic Revival
  • National Register reference number. 85001182 - 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Calvary Lutheran Church & Parsonage between 1992 and 2020, burning about 92 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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
Debris and open burning27
Equipment and vehicle use12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Other causes5
Smoking2
Fireworks2
Natural2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Recreation and ceremony1
Arson/incendiarism1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreSantiam UnitDAVIS CREEK
7 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSantiam Unit213 GRASS
6 September 2003Debris and open burningunder an acreSantiam UnitVICTOR BARREL
6 September 1996Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSantiam UnitVICTOR POINT RD. #1.
4 September 2014Other causes1.0 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersLAURIE LANE
3 September 1997Debris and open burningunder an acreSantiam UnitVICTOR POINT #2
3 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreMolalla UnitENDRESON
26 September 2016Equipment and vehicle use1.5 acresOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersDAVIS CREEK GRASS

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Calvary Lutheran Church & Parsonage: 8 past producers, 8 producers, 3 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Clay Occurrence #1ClayOccurrence
Fall Creek Ranch DepositClayOccurrence
Victor Point Locality No. 19ClayOccurrence
Abiqua Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Abiqua Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Pembroke/Silverton Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Pembroke/Silverton Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Davis CreekStonePast Producer
Davis Creek PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hickman PitStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this property

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silverton, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1998: 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 1998Tornado (F0)Silverton-A Silverton Police Officer reported seeing a tornado touch down near Silverton between 330 and 345 PM. No damages or injuries were reported.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
June D. Drake Houseunder 500 feet2011
Silverton Commercial Historic District0.1 miles1987
Joseph Henry Moser Barn0.1 miles2013
Magnus and Emma Ek House0.2 miles2013
Louise Adams House0.3 miles2015
DeGuire-Ludowitzki House0.5 miles2015

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 85001182 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Marion CountyAll 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.