Briedwell School

Built in 1895. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

One of 84 National Register listings published here for Yamhill County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1895.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 11935 SW Bellevue Hwy., Amity, 97101
When was it listed? July 1988
Category. building
Census division. Dayton-Amity
When was it built? 1895
National Register reference number. 88001156 - 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

7 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Briedwell School between 1992 and 2018, burning about 26 acres 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	3
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Fireworks	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
28 September 2003	Fireworks	4.0 acres	Forest Grove District	ERRATIC ROCK FIRE
22 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Forest Grove District	SUNRISE LANE FIRE
8 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Forest Grove District	MASONVILLE FIRE
26 August 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Forest Grove District	MUDDY VALLEY
6 June 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	MUDDY VALLEY BRUSH FIRE
4 October 2018	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	MP39/OLDSVILLE RD BURN
13 October 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Forest Grove District	MUDDY VALLEY FIRE

Every fire recorded in Yamhill County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Briedwell School: 9 past producers, 5 producers. 5 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Camp Chodrick	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Camp Chodrick Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Ceramco Clay Mine	Clay	Past Producer
Ceramco Clay Mine	Clay	Producer
A Anderson	Stone	Past Producer
A. Anderson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Anderson Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Anderson Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
C. C. Meisel Co	Stone	Past Producer
Mcdowell Quarry	Stone	Past 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
Pioneer Hall, Linfield College	6.4 miles	1978
McMinnville Downtown Historic District	7.0 miles	1987
Frank W. Fenton House	7.1 miles	1983
Jack Spence House	7.1 miles	1986
Buchanan Cellers Mill	7.2 miles	2012
Travelers Home	7.7 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001156 in Record Group 79.
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.