Oswald West Coastal Retreat

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

One of 56 National Register listings published here for Clatsop County · listed in 1992 · 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 2 buildingss, 1 site, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. West, Oswald, Coastal Retreat - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1981 Pacific Ave., Cannon Beach, 97110
When was it listed? February 1992
Category. building
Census division. Seaside
National Register reference number. 92000066 - 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

21 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Oswald West Coastal Retreat between 1993 and 2015, burning about 260 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	11
Recreation and ceremony	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Fireworks	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
22 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Astoria District	HWY 101
21 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Astoria District	HUG POINT
15 September 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Astoria District	KLOOTCHY CREEK #029
15 September 1993	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Astoria District	BLUE BIRD
6 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Astoria District	WAGNER FIRE
22 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	HUG POINT 2
22 August 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Astoria District	HOG HEAVEN
19 August 2006	Fireworks	under an acre	Astoria District	INDIAN BEACH

Every fire recorded in Clatsop County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Oswald West Coastal Retreat: 10 past producers, 8 producers, 1 occurrence. 8 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Mulligan # 1 Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Edith Gallaher Clay	Clay	Past Producer
Edith Gallaher Clay	Clay	Occurrence
P M West Clay	Clay	Past Producer
P. M. West Clay	Clay	Past Producer
Mulligan Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Square Creek Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
The Knoll	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
The Knoll	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Volmer Creek	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Clatsop County

Storms near this property

5 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cannon Beach, the town this property stands in, in 5 storm reports between 1996 and 2026: 2 heavy rain, 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind, 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 2026	Funnel Cloud	Cannon Beach	-	Member of the public reported a funnel cloudy near Haystack Rock in Cannon beach with a clear picture showing this feature.
September 2020	Heavy Rain	Cannon Beach	-	Total rainfall of 2.70 inches.
October 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Cannon Beach	-	Strong thunderstorm produced a gust to 59 mph at a weather station located in Cannon Beach.
January 2009	Heavy Rain	Cannon Beach	-	Heavy rain caused small streams and creeks to overflow which resulted in several inches of water over highway 101 near the interchange of highways 101 and 26.
April 1996	Hail	Cannon Beach	-	no account filed

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

4 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
Tillamook Rock Lighthouse	4.7 miles	1981
Charles Preston House	7.5 miles	1991
Haller-Black House	7.5 miles	1991
William and Nellie Fullam House	7.5 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92000066 in Record Group 79.
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.