Brookside Cemetery

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Brookside Cemetery is an historic 3.41-acre cemetery in Dayton, Oregon, United States. Joel Palmer set aside land for the cemetery in the 1850s; he deeded the site to the Dayton School District in 1874. 479 people are known to have been buried there between July 1864 and June 1987; there are presently no vacant plots.”
Wikipedia article Brookside Cemetery (Dayton, Oregon), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 84 National Register listings published here for Yamhill County · listed in 1987 · category: Site.

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 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. S end of Third St., Dayton, 97114
When was it listed? March 1987
Category. site
Also known as. Dayton MRA
Census division. Dayton-Amity
National Register reference number. 87000332 - 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

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Brookside Cemetery: 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
Harrington House	under 500 feet	1987
Cain House	0.1 miles	1987
Mellinger-Ponnay House	0.1 miles	1987
Dayton Common School	0.2 miles	1987
Harris Building	0.2 miles	1987
S. C. Commercial Club-Stuckey Building	0.2 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000332 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.
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.