Photograph of Fort Clatsop — Photograph by Glenn Scofield Williams from USA, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Clatsop National Memorial

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Fort Clatsop was the encampment of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in the Oregon Country near the mouth of the Columbia River during the winter of 1805-1806. Located along the Lewis and Clark River at the north end of the Clatsop Plains approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) southwest of Astoria, the fort was the last encampment of the Corps of Discovery, before embarking on their return trip east to St.”
Wikipedia article Fort Clatsop, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Clatsop County · listed in 1966 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Address. 4.5 mi. S of Astoria, Astoria, 97103
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. building
Census division. Astoria
National Register reference number. 66000640 - 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

127 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 127 fires within 5 miles of Fort Clatsop National Memorial between 1992 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	37
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	20
Recreation and ceremony	20
Misuse of fire by a minor	15
Equipment and vehicle use	12
Smoking	7
Fireworks	5
Other causes	4
Firearms and explosives use	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	CHATTERBOX
8 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.8 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	WADSWORTH #2
8 September 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Astoria District	FAIRWAY DR.
7 September 2000	Smoking	under an acre	Astoria District	CLATSOP PLAINS 2 FIRE
6 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.4 acres	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	RED FLAG
6 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	1.5 acres	Astoria District	SPIRIT PLACE
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

Every fire recorded in Clatsop County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 29 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 29 workings within 5 miles of Fort Clatsop National Memorial: 16 past producers, 10 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 10 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
Astoria Landfill	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
Astoria Landfille	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Barbey Packing Corp.	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
Astoria Marine Construction Company Historic District	1.2 miles	2014
Daniel Knight Warren House	3.2 miles	1988
Goodwin-Wilkinson Farmhouse	3.7 miles	1992
Uniontown-Alameda Historic District	4.1 miles	1988
Peter L. Cherry House	4.1 miles	1984
Astoria Victory Monument	4.2 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000640 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.