Photograph of Shaniko Hotel — Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Columbia Southern Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Columbia Southern Hotel, also known as the Shaniko Hotel, is a historic hotel, located in Shaniko, Oregon, United States. Built by the Columbia Southern Railway in 1900-1902 at the southern terminus of its line, the hotel was and remains the most imposing structure in Shaniko.”
Wikipedia article Columbia Southern Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Wasco County · listed in 1979 · 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. 4th and E Sts., Shaniko, 97057
When was it listed? October 1979
Category. building
Census division. Antelope
Architectural style. Renaissance Revival architecture
National Register reference number. 79002150 - 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

7 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 7 fires within 5 miles of Columbia Southern Hotel between 1999 and 2018, burning about 1,977 acres in total. 4 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
Natural	4
Debris and open burning	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
25 September 2012	Debris and open burning	660 acres	Prineville District	0584 ROOPER
29 August 2011	Natural	200 acres	Prineville District	0710
2 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	Prineville District	SHANIKO
13 July 2012	Equipment and vehicle use	1,051 acres	Prineville District	0222
30 June 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Prineville District	0176
3 June 2018	Natural	15 acres	Prineville District	0297
3 June 2018	Natural	50 acres	Prineville District	0296

Every fire recorded in Wasco County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Columbia Southern Hotel: 7 past producers, 5 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Justesen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Justesen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mp 61.8 Shaniko	Stone	Past Producer
Mp 61.8 Shaniko	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Shaniko Rock Product	Stone	Past Producer
Shaniko Rock Product	Stone	Past Producer
Shaniko Rock Products Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Shaniko Rock Products Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Wasco County

Storms near this property

2 since 2020

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Shaniko, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2020: 2 thunderstorm wind. 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
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Shaniko	-	Strong winds estimated at 100-115 mph downed portions of two high tension power towers.
May 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Shaniko	-	Completely destroyed riverside camps along Deschutes River with debris everywhere.

Every storm recorded in Wasco 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

3 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
Shaniko Historic District	under 500 feet	1982
Antelope School	6.4 miles	2016
Imperial Stock Ranch Headquarters Complex	6.8 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002150 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Wasco County	All 31 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.