Monroe State Bank Building

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Monroe State Bank Building, located in Monroe, Oregon, is a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. When it opened in 1911 it was headquarters of the only bank established in southeast Benton County, Oregon.”
Wikipedia article Monroe State Bank Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

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. 190 S. Fifth St., Monroe, 97456
When was it listed? February 1992
Category. building
Census division. Southeast Benton
National Register reference number. 92000065 - 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

23 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of Monroe State Bank Building between 1992 and 2017, burning about 31 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 1 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	12
Debris and open burning	5
Natural	1
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Smoking	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
8 September 2014	Smoking	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BELLFOUNTAIN
4 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Western Lane District	FERGUSON LAWN
23 September 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Philomath Unit	CHERRY CREEK
18 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Philomath Unit	HAMMER CR.
13 September 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Western Lane District	J.D.#1 FIRE
22 August 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Western Lane District	BROWNING CREEK
18 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Western Lane District	GRANGE FIRE
14 August 2017	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	WIN RIDGE

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Monroe State Bank Building: 17 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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
Monroe Sandstone Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Borgaard Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Lucas Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Lucas Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Melvin Becker	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Melvin Becker Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Monroe Brick & Tile	Clay	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Benton County

Storms near this property

4 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Monroe, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2006 and 2024: 3 flood, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
November 2024	Funnel Cloud	Monroe	-	Received a report and image of a funnel cloud via a social media post. No reports of damage.
April 2019	Flood	Monroe	-	The Long Tom River near Monroe crested at 9.1 feet around 4 PM on April 8th, which is 0.1 foot above flood stage.
January 2006	Flood	Monroe	-	no account filed
January 2006	Flood	Monroe	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Benton 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

4 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
Edwin and Anna Starr House	4.0 miles	1986
Richard S. Irwin Barn	5.9 miles	1988
Hull-Oakes Lumber Company	6.5 miles	1996
John Fiechter House	7.9 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000065 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Benton County	All 56 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.
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.