Willamette Falls Locks

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Willamette Falls Locks are a lock system on the Willamette River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Opened in 1873 and closed since 2011, they allowed boat traffic on the Willamette to navigate upstream beyond Willamette Falls and the T.W.”
Wikipedia article Willamette Falls Locks, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Clackamas County · listed in 1974 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

Address. W bank of Willamette River, West Linn, 97045
When was it listed? February 1974
Category. structure
Census division. Northwest Clackamas
National Register reference number. 74001680 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 33 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 33 workings within 5 miles of Willamette Falls Locks: 20 past producers, 11 producers, 2 occurrences. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Silica, 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
Petes Mtn	Iron	Past Producer
Petes Mtn	Iron	Past Producer
J P Vlahos	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Pynns Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Seventh Day Adventists	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Francis Welsh Silica Mine	Silica	Occurrence
Francis Welsh Silica Mine	Silica	Past Producer
Terrill Silica Deposit	Silica	Occurrence
Terrill Silica Deposit	Silica	Past Producer
J P Vlahos	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clackamas County

Storms near this property

3 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Linn, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2005 and 2015: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning, 1 flood. 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
December 2015	Flood	West Linn	-	The Tualatin River at West Linn exceeded Flood stage.
May 2005	Lightning	West Linn	-	Near West Linn, OR a lightning strike left up to 1800 residents without power for just under an hour.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	West Linn	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Clackamas 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
McLoughlin Promenade	0.2 miles	2014
James Milne House	0.2 miles	1979
Charles David Latourette House	0.3 miles	1980
Oregon City Masonic Lodge	0.3 miles	2014
Oregon City Municipal Elevator	0.4 miles	2014
Richard Petzold House	0.4 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001680 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clackamas County	All 93 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.
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.