Meacham Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Umatilla County · listed in 2002 · 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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Main St., Meacham, 97859
When was it listed? August 2002
Category. building
Census division. Pilot Rock
National Register reference number. 01000830 - 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Meacham Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 28 acres in total. 30 started naturally. 1 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
Natural	30
Recreation and ceremony	11
Debris and open burning	8
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Other causes	4
Railroad operations and maintenance	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Pendleton Unit	TOD CREEK
7 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Pendleton Unit	TIP TOP RIDGE
4 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Umatilla National Forest	CROW RIDGE
30 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pendleton Unit	CABIN FIRE
30 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Pendleton Unit	SHEEP CREEK
3 September 2012	Other causes	under an acre	Umatilla Agency	MEACHAM LAKE
3 September 2012	Other causes	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	SPRUCE LANE
27 September 2005	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Pendleton Unit	MP 257.56

Every fire recorded in Umatilla County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Meacham Hotel: 3 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone. 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	Recorded
Meacham	Stone	Past Producer
Meacham Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Meacham Rock Product	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Meacham Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Meacham Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Meacham Rock Products Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Umatilla County

Storms near this property

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meacham, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2006: 4 hail, 1 heavy rain, 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
August 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Meacham	$15,000	Winds from a dry microburst knocked over 15 trees and damaged a motorhome at Emigrant Springs State Park, located at 4000 feet in the Blue Mountains. An ASOS site 4 miles away in Meacham recorded a peak wind gust of 46 mph associated with this storm.
June 2006	Hail	Meacham	-	At Emigrant Springs State Park.
July 1998	Hail	Meacham	-	A thunderstorm produced 3/4 inch hail and 0.25 inches of rain in 15 minutes. Lightning from this storm caused at least 11 spot fires to start. Lightning and wind blown trees also caused scattered power outages.
July 2006	Hail	Meacham	-	no account filed
May 2000	Hail	Meacham	-	no account filed
November 1999	Heavy Rain	Meacham	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Umatilla 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000830 in Record Group 79.
Umatilla County	All 43 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.