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Photograph of M. E. Blanton House
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

M. E. Blanton House

Built in 1912 (bungalow). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

From the record

“Blanton House is a two-and-a-half-story Craftsman style historic building in the community of Aloha in the U.S. state of Oregon. Built in 1912, it is situated along Southwest 170th Avenue less than a block south of Tualatin Valley Highway.”

Wikipedia article M. E. Blanton House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 51 National Register listings published here for Washington County · listed in 1989 · category: Building · built in 1912, bungalow.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Blanton, M. E., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 3980 SW 170th Ave., Aloha, 97078
  • When was it listed? March 1989
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Beaverton-Hillsboro
  • When was it built? 1912
  • Architectural style. bungalow, American Craftsman
  • National Register reference number. 89000123 - 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 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of M. E. Blanton House: 12 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Topsil PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Aloha Quarry Quality Rock Plant #1Stone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Aloha Quarry/Quality Rock # 1StonePast Producer
Beaverton QuarryStonePast Producer
Beaverton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Farmington PitStonePast Producer
Farmington QuarryStonePast Producer
Farmington QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Grabhorn QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Washington County

Storms near this property

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aloha, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2023: 1 lightning, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2023FloodAloha1 killedA male age 53, drowned in Bronson Creek, SE of Hillsboro.
September 2013LightningAloha$28,000A tree hit by lightning fell and damaged two homes in Aloha.

Every storm recorded in Washington 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
Andrew Jackson and Sarah Jane Masters House1.9 miles2015
Aloha Farmhouse2.0 miles2014
Beaverton Downtown Historic District2.3 miles1986
Belle Ainsworth Jenkins Estate2.8 miles1978
Oak Hills Historic District3.5 miles2013
John Quincy Adams and Elizabeth Young House3.5 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 89000123 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Washington CountyAll 51 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.
  • 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.