Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
From the record
“The Multnomah County Poor Farm is a former poor farm located in Troutdale, Oregon, United States. Established in 1911, the building and its surrounding grounds operated as a poor farm housing the ill and indigent populations in the Portland metropolitan area at the beginning of the twentieth century, after the closure of a poor farm in the city's West Hills.”
Wikipedia article Multnomah County Poor Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 650 National Register listings published here for Multnomah County · listed in 1990 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.90000844- 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
22 since 1997
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Multnomah County Poor Farm
between 1997 and 2020, burning about 150 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 ceremony
10
Arson/incendiarism
3
Debris and open burning
2
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Fireworks
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Natural
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
2 September 2013
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area
SANDY 2
10 September 2002
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area
SANDY JUNCTION
9 August 2019
Natural
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
RIVERBEND
27 August 2011
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
SR 14
22 August 2000
Equipment and vehicle use
130 acres
Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area
DELTA #2
21 August 2018
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area
SANDY-ODF MOLALLA ASSIST
21 August 2014
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
40 workings within 5 miles of Multnomah County Poor Farm: 25 past producers, 13 producers, 1 plant, 1 unknown.
14 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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.
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