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Photograph of Amboy United Brethren Church
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Amboy United Brethren Church

Built in 1910. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Amboy United Brethren Church, also known as the Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Dora Young Chapel, is an historical church located at 21416 NE 399th Street, in Amboy, Washington.”

Wikipedia article Amboy United Brethren Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 2008 · category: Building · built in 1910.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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.
  • Address. 21416 NE 399th St., Amboy, 98601
  • When was it listed? December 2008
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Yacolt
  • When was it built? 1910
  • National Register reference number. 08001184 - 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

134 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 134 fires within 5 miles of Amboy United Brethren Church between 1992 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 5 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 burning65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Recreation and ceremony13
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Smoking5
Natural5
Fireworks5
Equipment and vehicle use4
Other causes4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGOODNIGHT
8 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters354TH ST
7 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWIEHL
7 September 2020Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersAMBOY RD
3 September 2013Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersWEST GARNER
3 September 2007Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLONG DRIVE
28 September 2008Power generation/transmission/distribution1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPUP FIRE
24 September 1992Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Amboy United Brethren Church: 7 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Nichols PitStonePast Producer
Colt QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Maple QuarryStone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this property

1 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Amboy, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
October 2021Thunderstorm WindAmboy$10,000Storm Survey for convective wind damage around 1 pm at Lake Merwin, WA. Somewhat significant tree damage at the Woodland Park area, as well as a fresh large tree, roughly 2 feet, snapped near the Lewis River RV park.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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

5 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Pomeroy Farm5.0 miles1987
Yale Bridge5.2 miles1982
Henry Heisen House6.3 miles1979
Cedar Creek Grist Mill6.4 miles1975
Lewisville Park7.7 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08001184 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clark CountyAll 45 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.