Simpson Copple House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Simpson Copple House is a historic residence in Hood River, Oregon, United States. Built in 1906 on a rise overlooking the Columbia River, it is one of the best preserved examples of the vernacular, late Queen Anne architectural style in Hood River.”
Wikipedia article Simpson Copple House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 36 National Register listings published here for Hood River County · listed in 1987 · 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. Copple, Simpson, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 911 Montello Ave., Hood River, 97031
When was it listed? March 1987
Category. building
Census division. Hood River
Architectural style. vernacular architecture
National Register reference number. 87000362 - 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

293 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 293 fires within 5 miles of Simpson Copple House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,331 acres in total. 12 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
Debris and open burning	71
Railroad operations and maintenance	38
Recreation and ceremony	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34
Fireworks	24
Smoking	24
Equipment and vehicle use	23
Power generation/transmission/distribution	14
Natural	12
Other causes	8
Arson/incendiarism	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	4

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
9 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 September 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	1.0 acres	The Dalles Unit	MOSIER EAST
7 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HUGGIE
6 September 1992	Railroad operations and maintenance	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,644 acres	Southeast Region-Department of Natural Resources	HIGHWAY 141
4 September 2013	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area	KOBERG
4 September 2009	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	The Dalles Unit	I84 MP 65

Every fire recorded in Hood River County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 47 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 47 workings within 5 miles of Simpson Copple House: 39 past producers, 8 producers. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Dimension. 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
Klickitat Co. Pits	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Basalt Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Dollar Pit 1920 Trs	Stone	Past Producer
East Pit	Stone	Past Producer
George Property Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Hanel Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Hood River Pit & Plant	Stone	Past Producer
Hood River Sand and Gravel Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Hood River Sand and Gravel Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Jones Creek Pit 1812 Trs	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Hood River County

Storms near this property

4 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Hood River, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2003 and 2015: 2 flood, 1 hail, 1 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
November 2006	Flood	Hood River	$30,000,000	The Hood River near the city of Hood River crested at 14.1 feet on November 7th, with flood stage at 13.0 feet. The flooding and debris flow up river from this gauge caused major damage to Hwy. 35 on Mt. Hood, closing the highway for a month due to repair work. Moderate damage was also done to irrigation works.
December 2015	Flood	Hood River	-	Heavy rain resulted in the flooding of Hood River near Hood River.
December 2007	Heavy Rain	Hood River	-	Storm total precipitation was 4.50 inches in Hood River.
August 2003	Hail	Hood River	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Hood River 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
Shaw-Dumble House	0.1 miles	1990
Lester and Hazel Murphy House	0.2 miles	1990
Orrin B. Hartley House	0.2 miles	1989
J. E. Slade House	0.2 miles	1989
IOOF-Paris Fair Building	0.2 miles	1990
Robert and Mabel Loomis House	0.2 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000362 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hood River County	All 36 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.