Portland Heights, Oregon

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 67 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• Martin Luther Pipes Houselisted 1987 · 0.1 miles away
• Caroline W. and M. Louise Flanders Houselisted 1991 · 0.1 miles away
• Daniel J. Malarkey Houselisted 1993 · 0.1 miles away
• Maud and Belle Ainsworth Houselisted 1986 · 0.2 miles away
• Bertha M. and Marie A. Green Houselisted 1992 · 0.2 miles away
• Heintz, Albert, Oscar, and Linda, Houselisted 1990 · 0.2 miles away
• Samuel G. Reed Houselisted 1990 · 0.2 miles away
• Alfred H. and Mary E. Smith Houselisted 2007 · 0.2 miles away
• Walter S. Zimmerman Houselisted 1991 · 0.2 miles away
• Frank J. and Maude Louise Cobbs Estatelisted 2002 · 0.2 miles away
• Markle-Pittock Houselisted 1985 · 0.2 miles away
• John M. and Elizabeth Bates House No. 1listed 1990 · 0.2 miles away

Every listing in Multnomah County

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1897 USGS Portland quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1905 USGS Portland quadrangle1:62500, 8 printings
• 1940 USGS Portland quadrangle1:62500, 4 printings
• 1948 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
• 1950 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
• 1954 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Portland quadrangle1:62500, 3 printings
• 1964 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
• 1979 USGS Vancouver quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
• 1990 USGS Portland quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Portland Heights in 2001, burning about 7,500 acres in total. 1 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Alameda
• Albina
• Arleta
• Brooklyn
• East Portland
• Faloma

Every fire recorded in Multnomah County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Portland Heights: 23 past producers, 6 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Mercury. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in Multnomah County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1136646. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.