J.H. Koontz Building

Built in 1905. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Umatilla County · listed in 1997 · category: Building · built in 1905.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Koontz, J.H., Building - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 141 N. Main St., Echo, 97826
When was it listed? August 1997
Category. building
Also known as. Echo and The Meadows MPS
Census division. Hermiston-Umatilla
When was it built? 1905
National Register reference number. 97000902 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of J.H. Koontz Building: 5 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: 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	Recorded
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Ransier Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ransier Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Umatilla County

Storms near this property

7 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Echo, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2003 and 2020: 2 funnel cloud, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 wildfire. 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
October 2003	Wildfire	Echo	$40,000	High winds in the Echo area contributed to a wildfire which ignited a haystack, consisting of 2,000 tons of alfalfa. Two flatbed truck trailers were also destroyed by the flames. The fire was caused by a controlled burn earlier in the day next to an irrigation ditch. The property damage from this event is estimated at $40,000.
July 2012	Thunderstorm Wind	Echo	-	Outflow from thunderstorms downed several large limbs in Echo.
April 2010	Funnel Cloud	Echo	-	Funnel cloud observed near Echo.
May 2004	Funnel Cloud	Echo	-	A funnel cloud was spotted near the Interstate 84 and Highway 207 interchange.
May 2020	Hail	Echo	-	no account filed
July 2012	Hail	Echo	-	no account filed
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Echo	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Umatilla 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
Arlington Hotel	under 500 feet	1997
Umatilla Masonic Lodge Hall	under 500 feet	1997
Bank of Echo Building	under 500 feet	1982
Echo City Hall	under 500 feet	1997
Echo Methodist Church	under 500 feet	1997
James Edwards Building	0.1 miles	1997

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000902 in Record Group 79.
Umatilla County	All 43 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.
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.