Jacob Zimmerman House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“Jacob Zimmerman House was the home of Jacob and Lena Zimmerman, German American settlers who came west over the Oregon Trail in 1851 to what became Multnomah County in the U.S. state of Oregon. Built in 1874, the house was part of a 600-acre (240 ha) dairy farm.”
Wikipedia article Jacob Zimmerman House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 650 National Register listings published here for Multnomah County · listed in 1986 · 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. Zimmerman, Jacob, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 17111 NE Sandy Blvd., Gresham, 97230
When was it listed? June 1986
Category. building
Census division. Gresham
Architectural style. Queen Anne style architecture in the United States
National Register reference number. 86001226 - 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

3 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Jacob Zimmerman House between 2013 and 2020, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism	1
Recreation and ceremony	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
20 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	SANDY RIVER
17 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CAMAS BRIDGE
16 August 2013	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	SANDY

Every fire recorded in Multnomah County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 59 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 59 workings within 5 miles of Jacob Zimmerman House: 43 past producers, 15 producers, 1 plant. 16 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
(Facility) Troutdale Smelter	Aluminum	Plant
Image	Clay	Past Producer
Red Rock Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Rocky Butte Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Multnomah County

Storms near this property

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gresham, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2020: 4 heavy rain, 2 lightning, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 1999	Lightning	Gresham	1 hurt	Lightning struck Richard Parker, 14, of Gresham as he was bicycling near NE 230th Court in Wood Village at 1230 PDT. The lightning struck him in the head and exited through his groin. His companion at the time called 911 from a neighbors house and paramedics arrived in about two minutes. Parkers's heart had stopped, and he suffered a concussion and second degree burns on his face, chest, groin, and upper legs. Parker apparently did not receive the full force of the bolt directly, which spared his life. He was still on his bicycle with his hands on the handlebars when the paramedics arrived. He was revived in the ambulance enroute to the hospital and he is expected to recover.
December 2015	Flood	Gresham	$1,087,000	Heavy rain resulted in Johnson Creek to exceed major flood stage. Water from the river flooded homes, vehicles, and businesses. Several roads were closed due to the high water.
October 2015	Heavy Rain	Gresham	$150,000	Heavy rain combined with clogged drains from leaves resulted in urban flooding. The Portland Fire and Rescue received 32 calls in regards to street flooding, and assisted travelers in 5 cars from their stalled or trapped cars to dry land. Four roads were closed in the area for high water, and several Max lines were cancelled due to flooding under bridges. Thirteen Max trains were damaged by water and will be out of service for up to 2 weeks. One roof collapsed from the weight of rain water after the roof drains had been clogged, and several homes or businesses had flooded basements. A tree had fallen onto and damaged a parked car.
June 2005	Lightning	Gresham	$50,000	no account filed
September 2020	Heavy Rain	Gresham	-	Heavy rainfall reported over 48 hours.
January 2007	Heavy Rain	Gresham	-	A total accumulation of 1.93 inches was reported.
December 2007	Heavy Rain	Gresham	-	Storm total precipitation was 3.70 inches.
August 2004	Flash Flood	Gresham	-	A debris flow was reported by the public at Kerslake Road and Stark Street along the Sandy River.
October 1996	Funnel Cloud	North Gresham	-	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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Louise Home Hospital and Residence Hall	1.5 miles	1987
Fairview City Jail	2.7 miles	2016
Jim Pepper House	3.1 miles	2023
Roy E. and Hildur L. Amundsen House	3.9 miles	2019
Multnomah County Poor Farm	3.9 miles	1990
Rocky Butte Scenic Drive Historic District	4.1 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86001226 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Multnomah County	All 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.