Hull-Oakes Lumber Company

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 1996 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Listed as. Hull--Oakes Lumber Company - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 23837 Dawson Rd., Monroe, 97456
When was it listed? August 1996
Category. district
Census division. Southeast Benton
National Register reference number. 96000869 - 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

37 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 37 fires within 5 miles of Hull-Oakes Lumber Company between 1992 and 2020, burning about 14 acres in total. 6 started naturally. 2 were 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	13
Natural	6
Recreation and ceremony	5
Debris and open burning	4
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	2
Fireworks	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
8 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Philomath Unit	DAWSON ROAD
6 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BRUCE RD FIRE
4 September 2015	Natural	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	WOODHALL STRIKE
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.
15 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Philomath Unit	PARK RD.
15 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Philomath Unit	MILL HILL

Every fire recorded in Benton County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Hull-Oakes Lumber Company: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Bellfountain Clay	Clay	Past Producer
	Bellfountian Clay	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

5 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	4.5 miles	1986
Richard S. Irwin Barn	6.0 miles	1988
Monroe State Bank Building	6.5 miles	1992
Peter Rickard Farmstead	6.7 miles	1983
John Fiechter House	7.0 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96000869 in Record Group 79.
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.