Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
From the record
“The Farrell Building, also known as the Charlie and Rose Farrell Building, the C. Farrell Building, the Golden Rule Store, JCPenney, the Fashionette and Farrell & Eddy Department Store, is a historic commercial building located at 305 Northeast 4th Avenue in Camas, Washington.”
Wikipedia article Farrell Building, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 45 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 2006 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.06000135- 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
36 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 36 fires within 5 miles of Farrell Building
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 299 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 4 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
11
Debris and open burning
10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
5
Arson/incendiarism
4
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Natural
2
Fireworks
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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
4 September 2017
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
STOREDAHL
2 September 2013
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area
SANDY 2
16 September 2002
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
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
8 August 1998
Debris and open burning
1.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
6 August 1999
Natural
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
27 August 2011
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
34 workings within 5 miles of Farrell Building: 19 past producers, 11 producers, 2 unknowns, 1 plant.
12 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Iron. 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
Camas, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2023: 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.
Social Media video shared via Twitter showed a funnel cloud with observable rotation. The person was located in Camas, WA near SE 2nd Ave and SE Cedar St facing south towards the Columbia River. A media article shared another video of the waterspout over the Camas Slough and stated that the waterspout was observed for several minutes.
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
3 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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