William Knight House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

One of 93 National Register listings published here for Clackamas County · listed in 1986 · category: Building.

Sources: 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. Knight, William, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 525 S.W. Fourth Ave., Canby, 97013
When was it listed? November 1986
Category. building
Census division. Canby
Architectural style. Federal architecture
National Register reference number. 86002961 - 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 39 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 39 workings within 5 miles of William Knight House: 30 past producers, 9 producers. 9 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Stone. 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
Carl Hansen Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Past Producer
Forman Quarry #2	Stone	Past Producer
J P Vlahos	Stone	Past Producer
Oregon State Hwy Div 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay	Past Producer
Petes Mtn	Iron	Past Producer
Petes Mtn	Iron	Past Producer
Forman Quarry No. 2	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
J P Vlahos	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Paraguay Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Albert Troutman	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clackamas County

Storms near this property

7 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Canby, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1998 and 2016: 5 flood, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. 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
January 2012	Flood	Canby	$1,000,000	Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoff caused the Pudding River at Aurora to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Pudding River crested at 27.8 feet on January 20th at 12 pm PST, 5.8 feet above flood stage.
October 1998	Tornado (F0)	Canby	$5,000	A tornado was spotted by several residents of Canby at 445 PM PDT south of Highway 99 off Barlow Road. The tornado did very minor damage to the home at 25170 S. Barlow Road, and did minor damage to a barn nearby that was being demolished. Five trees were blown over.
July 2016	Funnel Cloud	Canby	-	A funnel cloud reported by general public around Canby, OR.
March 2012	Flood	Canby	-	Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoff caused the Pudding River at Aurora to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Pudding River crested at 23.0 feet on March 18th at 3 am PST, 1.0 feet above flood stage.
April 2012	Flood	Canby	-	Heavy rain caused the Pudding River at Aurora to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Pudding River crested at 23.8 feet on April 1st at 8 pm PST, 1.8 feet above flood stage.
November 2012	Flood	Canby	-	Heavy rain caused the Pudding River at Aurora to overflow its banks and flood low lying areas. The Pudding River crested at 23.6 feet on January 22th at 10 pm PST, 1.6 feet above flood stage.
January 2009	Flood	Canby	-	Heavy rain combined with snowmelt runoff caused the Molalla River to overflow its banks and cause flooding of low-lying areas.

Every storm recorded in Clackamas 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
William Barlow House	1.1 miles	1977
Kraft-Brandes-Culberston Farmstead	2.1 miles	1982
Herman Anthony Farm	3.3 miles	1979
Macksburg Lutheran Church	3.6 miles	1982
John and Magdalena Davis Farm	5.2 miles	2005
Carl C. Jantzen Estate	5.9 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 86002961 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.