National Register of Historic Places listings in Wheeler County, Oregon

Location of Wheeler County in Oregon

This list presents the full set of buildings, structures, objects, sites, or districts designated on the National Register of Historic Places in Wheeler County, Oregon, and offers brief descriptive information about each of them. The National Register recognizes places of national, state, or local historic significance across the United States.^[1] Out of over 90,000 National Register sites nationwide,^[2] Oregon is home to over 2,000,^[3] and 2 of those are found in Wheeler County.

This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted December 2, 2016.^[4]

Current listings

[5]	Name on the Register	Image	Date listed[6]	Location	City or town	Description
1	Fossil Public School		May 22, 2013 (#13000312)	404 Main Street 45°00′01″N 120°12′46″W / 45.000161°N 120.212881°W	Fossil	A Classical Revival style school building.
2	Thomas Benton Hoover House		April 14, 1978 (#78002328)	1st Street, between Adams and Washington Streets 44°59′59″N 120°12′57″W / 44.999711°N 120.215782°W	Fossil	Thomas Benton Hoover, an early Euro-American settler, built this two-story, clapboard house in 1882. He was Fossil's first merchant, mayor, justice of the peace, and postmaster, as well as an early county commissioner and director of schools. He named Fossil for a paleontological find on his property in 1876.[7]

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Oregon
• Listings in neighboring counties: Crook, Gilliam, Grant, Jefferson, Morrow, Wasco
• Historic preservation
• History of Oregon
• Lists of Oregon-related topics

References

1. Andrus, Patrick W.; Shrimpton, Rebecca H.; et al. (2002), How to Apply the National Register Criteria for Evaluation, National Register Bulletin (15), National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior, OCLC 39493977, archived from the original on April 6, 2014, retrieved June 20, 2014.
2. National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places Program: Research, archived from the original on February 1, 2015, retrieved January 28, 2015.
3. Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, Oregon Historic Sites Database, retrieved August 6, 2015. Note that a simple count of National Register records in this database returns a slightly higher total than actual listings, due to duplicate records. A close reading of detailed query results is necessary to arrive at the precise count.
4. "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions". National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved on December 2, 2016.
5. Numbers represent an ordering by significant words. Various colorings, defined here, differentiate National Historic Landmarks and historic districts from other NRHP buildings, structures, sites or objects.
6. The eight-digit number below each date is the number assigned to each location in the National Register Information System database, which can be viewed by clicking the number.
7. Conner, Mrs. Robert E. (October 1977), National Register of Historic Places Inventory — Nomination Form: Hoover (Thomas Benton) House (PDF), retrieved February 28, 2013.

External links

• Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, National Register Program
• National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places site
• Media related to National Register of Historic Places in Wheeler County, Oregon at Wikimedia Commons