Baxter House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Baxter House, in Dayton, Oregon, also known as the Brewer Residence, was built in c. 1890. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.”
Wikipedia article Baxter House (Dayton, Oregon), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 84 National Register listings published here for Yamhill County · listed in 1987 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 407 Church St., Dayton, 97114
When was it listed? March 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Dayton MRA
Census division. Dayton-Amity
Architectural style. vernacular architecture
National Register reference number. 87000331 - 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 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Baxter House in 2017, burning under an acre in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	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
6 September 2017	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	GUNCLUB RD. FIRE

Every fire recorded in Yamhill County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Baxter House: 19 past producers, 13 producers. 13 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
Crabtree Traprock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Sohrweild Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Sohrweild Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Starr Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Starr Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Timmons Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Timmons Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Yamhill 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
Carter-Goodrich House	under 500 feet	1987
Avery House	under 500 feet	1987
Evangelical United Brethren Church	under 500 feet	1987
Methodist Episcopal Parsonage	under 500 feet	1987
Dayton Methodist Episcopal Church	under 500 feet	1987
Gabriel-Filer House	under 500 feet	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000331 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yamhill County	All 84 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.