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One of 39 National Register listings published here for Whitman County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
J. C. Barron Flour Mill
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Barron, J. C., Flour Mill - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 1st and Jackson Sts., Oakesdale, 99158
- When was it listed? February 1978
- Category. building
- Census division. Garfield-Oakesdale
- National Register reference number. 78002788 - 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
9 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of J. C. Barron Flour Mill: 9 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dept of Highways | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Johnson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Fish Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Murphy Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Oakesdale Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
10 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oakesdale, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2000 and 2025: 5 flood, 3 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2022 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakesdale | $175,000 | Thunderstorm winds moved North from Oakesdale WA to Rockford WA. A weather station clocked gusts to 60 mph. It damaged or knocked down power lines and over 100 trees. It caused power outages around 3200 customers. |
| February 2000 | Flood | Oakesdale | $50,000 | no account filed |
| January 2007 | Flood | Oakesdale | $20,000 | no account filed |
| February 2025 | Flood | Oakesdale | $10,000 | Overflowing creek in town led to flooding of several homes with water near 6 inches deep. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Oakesdale | - | A spotter reported 1 inch size hail from a thunderstorm moving through the area. |
| June 2022 | Hail | Oakesdale | - | Observers reported 1 inch hail near Oakesdale and Tekoa, WA. |
| July 2015 | Thunderstorm Wind | Oakesdale | - | Broadcast media posted a photograph of a downed tree via twitter that occurred in Oakesdale, WA. |
| April 2001 | Hail | Oakesdale | - | Location: on WA Hwy 27 |
| January 2006 | Flood | Oakesdale | - | no account filed |
| March 2002 | Flood | Oakesdale | - | no account filed |
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
3 within 8 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Oakesdale City Hall | 0.1 miles | 1993 |
 | Edwin H. Hanford House | 0.9 miles | 1986 |
| Tekoa Grain Company Elevator & Flathouse | 7.8 miles | 1988 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78002788 in Record Group 79. |
| Whitman County | All 39 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.