Union Fishermen's Cooperative Packing Company Alderbrook Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

“Union Fishermen's Cooperative Packing Company Alderbrook Station, on the Columbia River in Astoria, Oregon, was built in 1903. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1991.”
Wikipedia article Union Fishermen's Cooperative Packing Company Alderbrook Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Clatsop County · listed in 1991 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 4900 Ash St., Astoria, 97103
When was it listed? February 1991
Category. building
Census division. Astoria
National Register reference number. 91000053 - 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Union Fishermen's Cooperative Packing Company Alderbrook Station between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5 acres in total. 4 started naturally. None 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
Recreation and ceremony	21
Debris and open burning	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Smoking	2
Fireworks	2
Other causes	2

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 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Astoria District	JACK CREEK
6 September 2012	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	MITSCHER RD.
5 September 2014	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	CUTTER
30 September 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Astoria District	FLORENCE #033
3 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	KLASKANIE TRAIL
24 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Astoria District	FLORENCE ST.
22 September 2000	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Astoria District	WILLIAMSPORT 2
19 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Astoria District	39TH AND IRVING

Every fire recorded in Clatsop County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Union Fishermen's Cooperative Packing Company Alderbrook Station: 10 past producers, 4 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 unknown. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Dimension, Flagstone. 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
Sunset Quarry & Mill	Stone, Dimension	Unknown
Unnamed Pit	Flagstone	Producer
Astoria Landfill	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Stone	Producer
Astor House, Inc.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Astor House,Inc	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Astoria Landfille	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Barbey Packing Corp.	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clatsop County

Storms near this property

3 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Astoria, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2004 and 2016: 1 lightning, 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind. 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
December 2004	Lightning	Astoria	1 hurt	no account filed
October 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Astoria	-	Strong thunderstorms produced gusts up to 58 mph, recorded at the ASOS at the Astoria Airport.
December 2007	Heavy Rain	Astoria	-	Storm total precipitation was 3.94 inches, before the airport lost power.

Every storm recorded in Clatsop 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
Andrew Young House	1.0 miles	1986
Benjamin Young House and Carriage House	1.0 miles	1979
Christian Leinenweber House	1.1 miles	1999
Gustavus Holmes House	1.2 miles	1984
Erickson-Larsen Ensemble	1.4 miles	1991
Peter and Maria Larson House	1.4 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000053 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clatsop County	All 56 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.