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One of 20 National Register listings published here for Pacific County · listed in 2025 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Fort Columbia
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- Address. US HWY 101, Approx 2.3 miles west of Astoria - Megler Bridge, Chinook, 98614
- When was it listed? July 2025
- Category. district
- Census division. Naselle
- National Register reference number. 100011981 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
11 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Fort Columbia between 1993 and 2019, burning about 147 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 2012 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | BATTERY 245 |
| 3 September 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | GETTY FIRE |
| 17 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 August 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | 27 acres | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | SOUTH JETTY |
| 18 August 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | BLACK JETTY |
| 4 July 2003 | Fireworks | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 23 July 2009 | Fireworks | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LINDSTRUM LANE |
| 17 July 2000 | Fireworks | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 14 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Fort Columbia: 5 past producers, 3 prospects, 3 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Titanium, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Zirconium, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hammond-Mcgowan-Columbia Placer | Titanium, Metal, Iron | Occurrence | Ilmenite, Magnetite | |
| Mc Gowan Placer | Iron, Titanium, Zirconium | Prospect | ||
| Mc Gowan Querry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Chinook Black Sands | Titanium, Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Hammond Black Sand Locality No. 1 | Titanium, Zirconium, Iron | Prospect | ||
| Hammond Black Sand Locality No. 2 | Titanium, Zirconium, Iron | Prospect | ||
| Megler | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Tongue Point | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Tongue Point Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Chinook Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Chinook Point | 0.2 miles | 1966 |
 | Columbia River Quarantine Station | 4.5 miles | 1980 |
 | Colbert House | 6.7 miles | 1977 |
| Cape Disappointment Historic District | 7.1 miles | 1975 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011981 in Record Group 79. |
| Pacific County | All 20 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.