Cascade Locks Marine Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Cascade Locks and Canal was a navigation project on the Columbia River between the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington, completed in 1896. It allowed the steamboats of the Columbia River to bypass the Cascades Rapids, and thereby opened a passage from the lower parts of the river as far as The Dalles.”
Wikipedia article Cascade Locks and Canal, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Hood River 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. On the Columbia River, Cascade Locks, 97014
When was it listed? May 1974
Category. structure
Census division. Cascade Locks
National Register reference number. 74001686 - 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

171 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 171 fires within 5 miles of Cascade Locks Marine Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 74,391 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 6 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
Recreation and ceremony	45
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Debris and open burning	19
Smoking	12
Fireworks	12
Natural	10
Arson/incendiarism	6
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	2

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	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	FORT RAINS
8 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	TENAS CAMP
8 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	LOWER PUNCH BOWL
8 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	SMOKEY
7 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	2020
6 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DEL REY
5 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	WYETH RANGE
5 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Hood National Forest	691

Every fire recorded in Hood River County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Cascade Locks Marine Park: 13 past producers, 8 producers, 2 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Geothermal, Stone. 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
Bonneville Dam	Stone	Past Producer
Stevenson	Aluminum	Occurrence
Stevenson	Perlite	Occurrence
Moffett's Hot Springs	Geothermal	Producer
Rock Creke Hot Spring	Geothermal	Producer
Bonneville Dam	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Cascade Locks Pit and Plant	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Hamilton Mountain Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Island Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Keller Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hood River County

Storms near this property

2 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cascade Locks, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2003 and 2007: 1 wildfire, 1 heavy rain. 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
January 2007	Heavy Rain	Cascade Locks	-	A total accumulation of 2.22 inches was reported.
September 2003	Wildfire	Cascade Locks	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hood River 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
	Clark Thompson House	0.6 miles	1989
	Cascade Locks Work Center	2.6 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 74001686 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hood River County	All 36 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.