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One of 36 National Register listings published here for Hood River County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Miles B. and Eleanor Potter House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Potter, Miles B. and Eleanor, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 4095 Belmont Dr., Hood River, 97031
- When was it listed? October 1992
- Category. building
- Census division. Hood River
- Architectural style. Stick style
- National Register reference number. 92001326 - 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
252 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 252 fires within 5 miles of Miles B. and Eleanor Potter House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 542 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 7 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 | 48 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 36 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 31 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 |
| Smoking | 27 |
| Fireworks | 23 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 17 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 14 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Other causes | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
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 |
| 6 September 1992 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 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 |
| 4 September 2000 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 September 2001 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | The Dalles Unit | REDWOOD ROAD |
| 29 September 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 37 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Miles B. and Eleanor Potter House: 30 past producers, 7 producers. 7 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Klickitat Co. Pits | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Alameda Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Alameda Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Dickey Farm Sand Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hanel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Jewett Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Old Dalles Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Topsoil Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Underwood Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 2003Regional 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 |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Columbia Gorge Hotel | 1.3 miles | 1979 |
 | Cliff Lodge | 1.4 miles | 2000 |
 | Edward J. DeHart House | 1.5 miles | 1990 |
 | Hood River High School | 1.7 miles | 1999 |
 | J. E. Slade House | 2.0 miles | 1989 |
 | Orrin B. Hartley House | 2.0 miles | 1989 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 92001326 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.