Fort Stevens

Built in 1863. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“Fort Stevens was an American military installation that guarded the mouth of the Columbia River in the state of Oregon. Built near the end of the American Civil War, it was named for Civil War general and former Washington Territory governor Isaac I.”
Wikipedia article Fort Stevens (Oregon), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Clatsop County · listed in 1971 · category: Site · built in 1863.

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

The listing

Address. Fort Stevens State Park, Hammond, 97121
When was it listed? September 1971
Category. site
Census division. Astoria
When was it built? 1863
National Register reference number. 71000678 - 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

35 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 35 fires within 5 miles of Fort Stevens between 1992 and 2020, burning about 51 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Fireworks	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Debris and open burning	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	3
Firearms and explosives use	1
Natural	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
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
4 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	BATTERY 245
3 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	GETTY FIRE
13 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Astoria District	BURMA ROAD
12 September 2011	Fireworks	under an acre	Astoria District	S. RIDGE RD
10 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Astoria District	GAMA GOAT
1 September 1996	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Astoria District	PETER IREDALE II

Every fire recorded in Clatsop County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Fort Stevens: 9 past producers, 5 producers, 3 prospects, 2 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Titanium, Zirconium, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Endicott Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Hammond-Mcgowan-Columbia Placer	Titanium, Metal, Iron	Occurrence	Ilmenite, Magnetite
Mc Gowan Placer	Iron, Titanium, Zirconium	Prospect
Mc Gowan Querry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Chinook Black Sands	Titanium, Iron	Occurrence
Hammond Black Sand Locality No. 1	Titanium, Zirconium, Iron	Prospect
Hammond Black Sand Locality No. 2	Titanium, Zirconium, Iron	Prospect
Provo Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Columbia River Bar	Titanium	Unknown

Every working 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
Daniel Knight Warren House	3.0 miles	1988
Uniontown-Alameda Historic District	5.5 miles	1988
Astoria Victory Monument	5.6 miles	1984
Astoria Wharf and Warehouse Company	6.0 miles	1984
Peter L. Cherry House	6.1 miles	1984
Astoria Marine Construction Company Historic District	6.1 miles	2014

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000678 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.