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One of 56 National Register listings published here for Clatsop County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Sea Lyft
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 702 "D" St., Gearhart, 97138
- When was it listed? November 2001
- Category. building
- Census division. Astoria
- Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
- National Register reference number. 01000496 - 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
36 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Sea Lyft between 1992 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. None started naturally. 2 were 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 | 15 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 8 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.8 acres | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | WADSWORTH #2 |
| 8 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Astoria District | HWY 101 N |
| 6 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Astoria District | RIPPETT RD FIRE |
| 26 September 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Astoria District | CZ CAMP |
| 23 September 1996 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Astoria District | THOMPSON CREEK |
| 2 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Astoria District | OCEAN DRIVE |
| 19 September 2008 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Astoria District | WADSWORTH |
| 15 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Astoria District | SURF PINES LANDING |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Sea Lyft: 11 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Peat. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clatsop Peat Soils | Peat | Past Producer | ||
| Graprock Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Hamlet Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Pit 11 | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Rippet Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Rippet Pit | Stone | Producer | ||
| Dimeo | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Halvorson, Carl M. Inc | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Halvorson, Carl M. Inc | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Peterson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2009Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gearhart, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2009 and 2023: 2 flood. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2023 | Flood | Gearhart | - | Highway 101 closed in Seaside at 9 am due to flooding from heavy rainfall and tidal influences. |
| January 2009 | Flood | Gearhart | - | Heavy rain caused small creeks to overflow their banks resulting in one foot of water covering highway 101 near Gearhart. |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Latourette, Charles, David, House | under 500 feet | 1984 | |
 | William and Nellie Fullam House | 2.3 miles | 1991 |
 | Haller-Black House | 2.3 miles | 1991 |
 | Charles Preston House | 2.4 miles | 1991 |
 | Goodwin-Wilkinson Farmhouse | 4.5 miles | 1992 |
 | Tillamook Rock Lighthouse | 7.6 miles | 1981 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 01000496 in Record Group 79. |
| Clatsop County | All 56 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.