Photograph of United States Post Office — Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

United States Post Office (Scappoose)

Built in 1966 (modern architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

“The United States Post Office building in Scappoose, Oregon, is the current post office serving the local community and a recognized historic structure. Built in 1966, it is an essentially intact example of the "Thousand Series" facilities built under the direction of the Post Office Department in the late 1950s and the 1960s.”
Wikipedia article United States Post Office (Scappoose, Oregon), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 2017 · category: Building · built in 1966, modern architecture.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 52643 Columbia R. Hwy., Scappoose, 97056
When was it listed? January 2017
Category. building
Also known as. U.S. Post Office Department Facilities in Oregon 1940-1971 MPS
Census division. Scappoose
When was it built? 1966
Architectural style. modern architecture
National Register reference number. 100000618 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of United States Post Office (Scappoose) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 10 acres in total. 8 started naturally. 3 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	11
Natural	8
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Fireworks	1
Other causes	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	PISGAH HOME RD. #1
8 September 1992	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Columbia City Unit	ROCKY POINT
6 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Columbia City Unit	J P WEST RD.
4 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	OTTO MILLER ROAD #1
28 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Columbia City Unit	TURLEY ROAD #1
27 September 2009	Other causes	under an acre	Columbia City Unit	HOLADAY RD. #1
27 September 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Columbia City Unit	RABINSKI ROAD #1
14 September 2012	Smoking	2.0 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	HOLADAY RD. #1

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 40 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of United States Post Office (Scappoose): 22 past producers, 9 producers, 8 occurrences, 1 unknown. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron. 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
Bauxite Scapoose - St Helens	Titanium, Metal, Aluminum, Iron	Occurrence	Limonite
Bonser Prospect	Aluminum, Iron	Occurrence	Bauxite
Scapoose-St. Helens Bauxite	Aluminum, Titanium, Iron	Occurrence
Scappoose Iron	Iron, Mineral Pigments	Producer	Limonite
Bonser Prospect	Aluminum, Iron	Occurrence
Oester	Aluminum, Iron	Occurrence
Colport Charcoal Iron	Iron	Occurrence
Scappoose Coal Prospect	Iron	Unknown
Scappoose Iron	Iron	Occurrence	Limonite
Scappoose Iron	Iron	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

2 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Scappoose, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2007 and 2018: 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud. 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
October 2018	Funnel Cloud	Scappoose	-	A viewer sent in a photo to a local news station of a funnel cloud over the Multnomah Channel, observed around 11 AM.
December 2007	Heavy Rain	Scappoose	-	Storm total precipitation was 5.97 inches.

Every storm 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
	James Grant Watts House	0.2 miles	1980
	John and Carolena Heimuller Farmstead	0.9 miles	2011

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100000618 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.
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.