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One of 93 National Register listings published here for Clackamas County · listed in 1984 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Nicholas O. Walden House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Walden, Nicholas O., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 1847 SE 5th Ave., West Linn, 97068
- When was it listed? September 1984
- Category. building
- Census division. Northwest Clackamas
- Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
- National Register reference number. 84002935 - 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 30 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Nicholas O. Walden House: 20 past producers, 8 producers, 2 occurrences. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petes Mtn | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Petes Mtn | Iron | Past Producer | ||
| Francis Welsh Silica Mine | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Francis Welsh Silica Mine | Silica | Past Producer | ||
| Grimms Fuel Co. Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| J P Vlahos | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Pynns Rock Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Seventh Day Adventists | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Terrill Silica Deposit | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Terrill Silica Deposit | Silica | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 2005Regional 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 |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Willamette Falls Neighborhood Historic District | under 500 feet | 2009 | |
 | Canemah Historic District | 1.6 miles | 1978 |
 | Carl C. Jantzen Estate | 1.6 miles | 1990 |
 | Willamette Falls Locks | 2.1 miles | 1974 |
 | Morton Matthew McCarver House | 2.2 miles | 1974 |
 | White-Kellogg House | 2.2 miles | 1989 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 84002935 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.