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One of 9 National Register listings published here for Klickitat County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Klickitat County Courthouse
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 205 S. Columbus Ave., Goldendale, 98620
- When was it listed? September 2014
- Category. building
- Census division. Goldendale
- National Register reference number. 14000613 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
109 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 109 fires within 5 miles of Klickitat County Courthouse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 253 acres in total. 11 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 29 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 21 |
| Debris and open burning | 21 |
| Natural | 11 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Other causes | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 8 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 8 September 1997 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | ORCHARD HEIGHTS |
| 7 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 5.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 5 September 1995 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | HARPER SPRINGS |
| 29 September 2015 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | EAST PONDEROSA |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Klickitat County Courthouse: 9 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Goldendale | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Red Rock Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Riley Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Twin Buttes | Magnesite | Occurrence | ||
| Cunningham Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Pipeline Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Borrow Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gorge Rock Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Stultz Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Goldendale, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2019: 2 hail, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2004 | Lightning | Goldendale | $10,000 | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Goldendale | - | Heavy rainfall accompanied the hail with totals of 2.5 to 3 inches in the same location. |
| July 1999 | Hail | Goldendale | - | A farmer located 4 miles south of Satus Pass reported crop damage due to hail as well as some erosion from heavy rain. Lightning also damaged a sprinkler pump. |
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
2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Goldendale Free Public Library | under 500 feet | 1982 |
 | Charles Newell House | 0.3 miles | 1977 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 14000613 in Record Group 79. |
| Klickitat County | All 9 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.