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Photograph of Dayton High School
Photograph by Office of Congressman David Wu, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dayton High School

Built in 1937. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“Dayton High School is a public high school in Dayton, Oregon, United States. The building was built in 1937 and remodeled in 2000.”

Wikipedia article Dayton High School (Oregon), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 84 National Register listings published here for Yamhill County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1937.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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. 801 Ferry St., Dayton, 97114
  • When was it listed? March 1987
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Dayton MRA
  • Census division. Dayton-Amity
  • When was it built? 1937
  • National Register reference number. 87000339 - 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 Dayton High School 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 use1

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
6 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersGUNCLUB RD. FIRE

Every fire recorded in Yamhill County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 34 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 34 workings within 5 miles of Dayton High School: 20 past producers, 14 producers. 14 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Bowyer QuarryStonePast Producer
Bowyer QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Crabtree Traprock QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
QuarryStonePast Producer
Sohrweild QuarryStonePast Producer
Sohrweild QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Starr QuarryStonePast 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Berry-Sigler Investment Property0.1 miles1987
Hole House0.2 miles1987
Mabee-Mayberry House0.2 miles1987
Henry Bertram Sr. House0.2 miles1988
McNish House0.2 miles1987
Krietz House0.2 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87000339 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yamhill CountyAll 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.