Polk County Bank

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Polk County · listed in 1986 · 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.
Address. 295 E. Main St., Monmouth, 97361
When was it listed? November 1986
Category. building
Census division. Monmouth-Independence
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 86003179 - 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

9 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Polk County Bank between 1997 and 2019, burning about 8 acres 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
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	1
Smoking	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
12 September 1999	Debris and open burning	1.5 acres	Dallas Unit	FISHBACK
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
7 August 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Dallas Unit	MONMOUTH HIGHWAY
3 August 2015	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BURSELL RD.
29 August 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Dallas Unit	COOPER HOLLOW RD.
8 July 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Dallas Unit	COOPER HOLLOW
27 April 2019	Debris and open burning	2.3 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	MISTLETOE

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 Polk County Bank: 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

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monmouth, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2016: 2 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
April 2016	Funnel Cloud	Monmouth	-	There were several reports and photos of a funnel cloud near Monmouth, Oregon.
April 2004	Funnel Cloud	Monmouth	-	no account filed

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
Graves-Fisher-Strong House	0.1 miles	1985
John W. Howell House	0.1 miles	1987
Burford-Stanley House	0.3 miles	2022
Eleanor Sherman House	0.3 miles	1989
Joseph and Priscilla Craven House	0.3 miles	1998
Dr. John E. and Mary D. Davidson House	1.8 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86003179 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.