Saturno-Breen Truck Garden

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Walla Walla County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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 6 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
Address. E of College Place on Rt. 5, College Place, 99362
When was it listed? March 1982
Category. building
Census division. Walla Walla-College Place
National Register reference number. 82004301 - 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

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Saturno-Breen Truck Garden in 1997, burning about 1 acre in total. None 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
Equipment and vehicle use	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
1 July 1997	Equipment and vehicle use	1.3 acres	Whitman Mission National Historic Site	EDGER

Every fire recorded in Walla Walla County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Saturno-Breen Truck Garden: 10 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay. 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
Walla Walla Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Borrow Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Dell Avenue Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Jones-Scott Company	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mill Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Walla Walla County

Storms near this property

3 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names College Place, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2011: 1 hail, 1 lightning, 1 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
March 2011	Thunderstorm Wind	College Place	$1,000	High wind blew down a tree onto a fence and street.
April 2003	Lightning	College Place	$1,000	Lightning associated with a thunderstorm ignited a barn fire.
April 2003	Hail	College Place	-	In addition, 0.5 inch diameter hail fell three miles north of Walla Walla, and accumulated to 1.5 inches.

Every storm recorded in Walla Walla 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
John F. Boyer House	0.9 miles	1980
Fort Walla Walla Historic District	1.0 miles	1974
Walla Walla Valley Traction Company Car Barn	1.6 miles	1989
Washington School	1.8 miles	1991
Whitehouse-Crawford Planing Mill	1.8 miles	2000
Electric Light Works Building	1.9 miles	2012

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004301 in Record Group 79.
Walla Walla County	All 32 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.