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Photograph of Fred Harlow House
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fred Harlow House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

From the record

“The Fred Harlow House, located in Troutdale, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building sits within the 1.4-acre (0.57 ha) Harlow House Park.”

Wikipedia article Fred Harlow House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 650 National Register listings published here for Multnomah County · listed in 1984 · 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.
  • Listed as. Harlow, Fred, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. 726 E. Columbia St., Troutdale, 97060
  • When was it listed? February 1984
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Gresham
  • National Register reference number. 84003078 - 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

27 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Fred Harlow House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 297 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 3 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 ceremony11
Arson/incendiarism3
Debris and open burning3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking1
Fireworks1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Natural1

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
29 September 1993Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 September 1994Smoking1.0 acresMolalla UnitTUCKER RD
2 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaSANDY 2
10 September 2002Arson/incendiarismunder an acreColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaSANDY JUNCTION
9 August 2019Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRIVERBEND
27 August 2011Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSR 14
27 August 1994Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
22 August 2000Equipment and vehicle use130 acresColumbia River Gorge National Scenic AreaDELTA #2

Every fire recorded in Multnomah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 40 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 40 workings within 5 miles of Fred Harlow House: 22 past producers, 15 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 plant. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay, Geothermal. 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) Troutdale SmelterAluminumPlant
Camas PlacerTitanium, Iron, GoldUnknown
Midvale QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Red Rock QuarryStone, DimensionPast Producer
WashingtonGoldUnknown
Camp Collins YmcaGeothermalProducer
Columbia Brick WorksClayPast Producer
Columbia Brick WorksClayProducer
CorbettGeothermalProducer
Midvale QuarryStonePast Producer

Every working recorded in Multnomah County

Storms near this property

2 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Troutdale, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2005 and 2017: 2 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 2017Heavy RainTroutdale-Multnomah County Sheriff's Office reported that heavy rain caused a landslide on the Historic Columbia River Highway near the Stark Street Bridge.
August 2005Heavy RainTroutdale-no account filed

Every storm 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
Columbia River Highway Historic District0.3 miles1983
Troutdale Methodist Episcopal Church0.3 miles1993
Columbia River Highway Historic District0.3 miles1983
Multnomah County Poor Farm1.2 miles1990
Fairview City Jail2.5 miles2016
Springdale School2.9 miles2011

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 84003078 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.
  • 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.