Fort Astoria

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Fort Astoria was the primary fur trading post of John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company (PFC). A maritime contingent of PFC staff was sent on board the Tonquin, while another party traveled overland from St.”
Wikipedia article Fort Astoria, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Clatsop County · listed in 1966 · category: Site · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

Address. 15th and Exchange Sts., Astoria, 97103
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. site
Census division. Astoria
National Register reference number. 66000639 - 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

77 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 77 fires within 5 miles of Fort Astoria between 1992 and 2019, burning about 8 acres in total. 3 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	21
Debris and open burning	18
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Smoking	3
Fireworks	3
Natural	3
Other causes	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Astoria District	JACK CREEK
6 September 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	MITSCHER RD.
5 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	CUTTER
30 September 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Astoria District	FLORENCE #033
3 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	KLASKANIE TRAIL
24 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Astoria District	FLORENCE ST.
22 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Astoria District	WILLIAMSPORT 2
22 September 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Astoria District	MUDD ROAD

Every fire recorded in Clatsop County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 22 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 22 workings within 5 miles of Fort Astoria: 12 past producers, 5 producers, 3 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Titanium, Clay. 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
Columbia River Bar	Titanium	Unknown
Endicott Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Sunset Quarry & Mill	Stone, Dimension	Unknown
Unnamed Pit	Flagstone	Producer
Astoria Landfill	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone	Producer
Astor House, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Astor House,Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clatsop County

Storms near this property

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Astoria, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2016: 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. The reports record 1 injury. 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 2004	Lightning	Astoria	1 hurt	no account filed
October 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Astoria	-	Strong thunderstorms produced gusts up to 58 mph, recorded at the ASOS at the Astoria Airport.
December 2007	Heavy Rain	Astoria	-	Storm total precipitation was 3.94 inches, before the airport lost power.

Every storm recorded in Clatsop 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
John Jacob Astor Hotel	under 500 feet	1979
Captain George Conrad Flavel House	under 500 feet	1986
Charles Stevens House	under 500 feet	1985
Grace Episcopal Church and Rectory	0.1 miles	1984
Astor Building	0.1 miles	1984
Judge C. H. Page House	0.1 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000639 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.