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Photograph of Bybee-Howell House
Photograph by Ian Poellet ( User:Werewombat ), CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Bybee-Howell House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Bybee-Howell House is a historic house, located on Sauvie Island, Oregon, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article Bybee-Howell House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 650 National Register listings published here for Multnomah County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Off Sauvie Island Rd., Sauvie Island, 97231
  • When was it listed? November 1974
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Skyline
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • National Register reference number. 74001716 - 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

25 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 25 fires within 5 miles of Bybee-Howell House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 6 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 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
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning5
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Arson/incendiarism2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Natural1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 1992Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreColumbia City UnitROCKY POINT
4 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersSKYLINE CAR FIRE
25 September 1994Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreForest Grove DistrictTRESTLE FIRE
21 September 2008Debris and open burningunder an acreForest Grove DistrictSHELTERED NOOK BURN
2 September 2000Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreColumbia City UnitROCKY PT RD#1
15 September 2014Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreOregon Department of Forestry Salem HeadquartersMCNAMEE RD FIRE
14 September 2008Arson/incendiarismunder an acreForest Grove DistrictSKYLINE VEHICLE FIRE
12 September 1997Naturalunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaWYETH BENCH

Every fire recorded in Multnomah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 28 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 28 workings within 5 miles of Bybee-Howell House: 15 past producers, 8 producers, 3 occurrences, 1 prospect. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Vancouver Aluminum SmelterAluminum, Contained or MetalPlant
Ash Grove Cement PlantCalciumProducer
Bauxite Tualatin MountainsAluminum, Iron, Titanium, MetalOccurrence
Skyline Blvd BauxiteAluminum, IronOccurrenceBauxite
Skyline Blvd Bauxite DepositAluminum, IronOccurrence
Tualatin Mountains BauxiteAluminum, Titanium, IronProspect
Clay MineClayPast Producer
Unnamed PitClayProducer
Angell Bros. PitStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Hidden Valley LandfillStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Multnomah 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
US Post Office-St. John's Station4.6 miles1985
St. Johns Signal Tower Gas Station4.8 miles2003
PT-658 (motor torpedo boat)5.3 miles2012
West Hall6.6 miles1977
John Mock House6.9 miles1980
John Yeon Speculative House7.0 miles2007

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74001716 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Multnomah CountyAll 650 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.