Victor Point School

Built in 1889. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

One of 120 National Register listings published here for Marion County · listed in 1996 · category: Building · built in 1889.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 1175 Victor Point Rd., SE, Silverton, 97381
When was it listed? September 1996
Category. building
Census division. Stayton
When was it built? 1889
National Register reference number. 96001050 - 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

74 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 74 fires within 5 miles of Victor Point School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 124 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning	33
Equipment and vehicle use	18
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Other causes	4
Natural	2
Fireworks	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
6 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Santiam Unit	VICTOR BARREL
6 September 1996	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Santiam Unit	VICTOR POINT RD. #1.
5 September 2003	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Santiam Unit	BLADE FIRE
4 September 2000	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Santiam Unit	WALDO HILLS & VICTOR PT.
3 September 1997	Other causes	under an acre	Santiam Unit	DRIFT CREEK #1
3 September 1997	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Santiam Unit	VICTOR POINT #2
3 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Molalla Unit	ENDRESON
25 September 2003	Other causes	under an acre	Santiam Unit	HOT WIRE FIRE

Every fire recorded in Marion County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 52 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 52 workings within 5 miles of Victor Point School: 35 occurrences, 11 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Clay, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Drift Creek Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Drift Creek Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Hickman Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Silverton Creek Pit #2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Victor Point Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hickman Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Phillipi Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Phillipi Pit	Stone	Producer

Every working recorded in Marion County

Storms near this property

1 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Silverton, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1998: 1 tornado. 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
October 1998	Tornado (F0)	Silverton	-	A Silverton Police Officer reported seeing a tornado touch down near Silverton between 330 and 345 PM. No damages or injuries were reported.

Every storm recorded in Marion 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
R. C. Geer Farmhouse	3.1 miles	1980
Silver Falls State Park Concession Building Area	5.5 miles	1983
DeGuire-Ludowitzki House	5.7 miles	2015
Gordon House	5.8 miles	2004
Magnus and Emma Ek House	6.0 miles	2013
Louise Adams House	6.2 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 96001050 in Record Group 79.
Marion County	All 120 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.