St. Helens Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

One of 11 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 1984 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Roughly Strand, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, Cowlitz, St. Helens Sts., and Columbia Blvd., St. Helens, 97051
When was it listed? October 1984
Category. district
Census division. St. Helens
National Register reference number. 84000137 - 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

94 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 94 fires within 5 miles of St. Helens Downtown Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 77 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	18
Debris and open burning	17
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Smoking	12
Recreation and ceremony	10
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Arson/incendiarism	6
Natural	3
Fireworks	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 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Columbia City Unit	SMITH ROAD #1
7 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	PITTSBURG/GENSMAN ROADS
3 September 2006	Misuse of fire by a minor	5.0 acres	Columbia City Unit	PITTSBURG RD.
3 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Columbia City Unit	HANKEY ROAD #1
28 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.3 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	18 HUB
27 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	OLD PORTLAND/KASTER#3
27 September 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Columbia City Unit	SYKES ROAD #2
25 September 2019	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	DART CREEK ROAD #1

Every fire recorded in Columbia 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 St. Helens Downtown Historic District: 19 past producers, 6 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Columbia County Bauxite Deposits	Aluminum, Iron, Titanium, Silica, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Water, Free	Prospect	1944
Maple Hill Iron	Iron	Occurrence
Marshall Farm	Aluminum, Iron	Occurrence
B and S Rock Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Columbia County	Stone	Past Producer
Columbia County	Stone	Past Producer
Columbia County	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Dwight Irby	Stone	Past Producer
Dwight Irby	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Longview Fiber	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia 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
	Cox-Williams House	0.1 miles	1982
	Dr. Charles G. and Lucinda McBride Caples Farmstead	1.9 miles	2005

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 84000137 in Record Group 79.
Columbia County	All 11 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.