Photograph of Caples House Museum — Photograph by Tedder, CC BY 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Dr. Charles G. and Lucinda McBride Caples Farmstead

Built in 1959 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The Caples House Museum, also known as the Dr. Charles G. and Lucinda McBride Caples Farmstead, is a historic house museum in Columbia City, Oregon, United States.”
Wikipedia article Caples House Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1959, Neoclassical architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Caples, Dr. Charles G. and Lucinda McBride, Farmstead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1925 First St., Columbia City, 97018
When was it listed? September 2005
Category. building
Census division. St. Helens
When was it built? 1959
Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
National Register reference number. 05001060 - 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

92 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Dr. Charles G. and Lucinda McBride Caples Farmstead between 1992 and 2020, burning about 64 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 5 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	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Smoking	13
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Recreation and ceremony	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Arson/incendiarism	5
Fireworks	3
Natural	2
Other causes	2

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 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Columbia City Unit	SMITH ROAD #1
7 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	PITTSBURG/GENSMAN ROADS
3 September 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.0 acres	Columbia City Unit	PITTSBURG RD.
3 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Columbia City Unit	HANKEY ROAD #1
27 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	OLD PORTLAND/KASTER#3
27 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Columbia City Unit	SYKES ROAD #2
27 September 2003	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Columbia City Unit	ADAMS CREEK #1
25 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	DART CREEK ROAD #1

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of Dr. Charles G. and Lucinda McBride Caples Farmstead: 20 past producers, 7 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Aluminum. 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
Columbia County Bauxite Deposits	Aluminum, Iron, Titanium, Silica, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free	Prospect	1944
Happy Hollow	Aluminum, Iron	Occurrence
Maple Hill Iron	Iron	Occurrence
Marshall Farm	Aluminum, Iron	Occurrence
B and S Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Columbia County	Stone	Past Producer
Columbia County	Stone	Past Producer
Columbia County	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Dwight Irby	Stone	Past Producer
Dwight Irby	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	St. Helens Downtown Historic District	1.9 miles	1984
	Cox-Williams House	2.0 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05001060 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia County	All 11 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.