Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

“The Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site is a monument in (present-day) East Wenatchee, Washington, dedicated to Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon, Jr., the two men who made the first non-stop flight across the Pacific Ocean. They departed from Misawa, Japan, on October 4, 1931, and landed near this site 41 hours later.”
Wikipedia article Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1972 · category: Site.

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 site, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
Address. 3 mi. NE of East Wenatchee, East Wenatchee, 98802
When was it listed? March 1972
Category. site
Census division. East Wenatchee
National Register reference number. 72001269 - 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

15 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19,081 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Fireworks	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Natural	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
9 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	54 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HORSE LAKE ROAD
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
1 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,610 acres	Spokane District	CRYSTAL
20 August 2004	Equipment and vehicle use	50 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CANYON VIEW
8 July 2008	Power generation/transmission/distribution	15,023 acres	Spokane District	BADGER MT
6 July 2014	Fireworks	180 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SKYLINE
4 July 2011	Fireworks	under an acre	Spokane District	HORSE LAKE
23 July 1998	Natural	25 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 54 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 54 workings within 5 miles of Pangborn-Herndon Memorial Site: 31 past producers, 14 occurrences, 5 prospects, 2 plants. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Gold, Silver. 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
(Facility) Wenatchee Aluminum Smelter	Aluminum, Contained or Metal	Plant
Cannon Mine	Silver, Gold, Copper, Antimony, Lead, Arsenic	Producer	Acanthite, Boulangerite, Chalcopyrite, Electrum, Galena, Gold, Hessite, Marcasite, Naumannite, Pyrargyrite, Silver, Sphalerite, Stibnite
Lovitt	Gold, Silver, Copper, Antimony, Zinc, Arsenic, Lead	Past Producer	1885, 1894
Squaw Saddle	Mercury	Occurrence	Cinnabar
Starnose	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Cannon	Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Acanthite, Chalcopyrite, Electrum, Galena, Gold, Hessite, Naumannite, Pyrargyrite, Sphalerite, Stibnite
Dry Gulch	Perlite	Occurrence
Lovitt	Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Acanthite, Chalcopyrite, Electrum, Galena, Gold, Hessite, Naumannite, Sphalerite, Stibnite
Rooster Comb	Perlite	Occurrence
Simon-Cumbo	Silver, Gold	Prospect	Acanthite, Electrum, Gold, Pyrargyrite

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

4 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names East Wenatchee, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2004 and 2017: 1 tornado, 1 hail, 1 flood, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2016	Flood	East Wenatchee	$2,000	Law enforcement reported two residents in the area that reported minor flooding of their property and homes 3 miles east southeast of Wenatchee, Washington. The extend of flooding or damage is unknown at this time of entry.
May 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	East Wenatchee	-	A thunderstorm wind gust lofted a glass table top and shattered it near East Wenatchee.
May 2004	Tornado (F0)	East Wenatchee	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	East Wenatchee	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Badger Mountain Lookout	4.9 miles	1990

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72001269 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Douglas County	All 12 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.