Photograph of Fort Okanogan — Photograph by Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Okanogan, Sites of

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Fort Okanogan was founded in 1811 on the confluence of the Okanogan and Columbia Rivers as a fur trade outpost. Originally built for John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, it was the first American-owned settlement within Washington state, located in what is now Okanogan County.”
Wikipedia article Fort Okanogan, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Okanogan County · listed in 1973 · 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 2 sitess as contributing to the listing.
Address. N of Bridgeport between the Columbia and Okanogan Rivers, Bridgeport, 98812
When was it listed? June 1973
Category. site
Census division. Colville Reservation
National Register reference number. 73001883 - 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

46 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Fort Okanogan, Sites of between 1992 and 2020, burning about 924 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 1 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	12
Natural	12
Power generation/transmission/distribution	9
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Arson/incendiarism	1
Smoking	1
Fireworks	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
30 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Colville Agency	LAGRANGE ROAD
29 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.3 acres	Okanogan County Fire Districts	MONSE
25 September 2006	Power generation/transmission/distribution	13 acres	Colville Agency	HIGHWAY 17
23 September 1992	Natural	60 acres	Colville Agency	GOLF ROCK
18 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Spokane District	CASTLE ROCK
12 September 2017	Power generation/transmission/distribution	87 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BREWSTER FLAT
1 September 2016	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Colville Agency	SNIDER FLAT
6 August 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	9.1 acres	Colville Agency	LAGRANGE ROAD

Every fire recorded in Okanogan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Fort Okanogan, Sites of: 12 past producers, 5 producers, 4 unknowns, 1 occurrence. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Limestone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Brewster	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Brewster	Granite	Prospect	Granite
Brewster	Mica	Unknown
Godbey Red E Mix	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Cassimer Bar Placer	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
Cassimer Bar Placer	Gold	Unknown
Shotwell Placer	Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Shotwell Placer	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
Shotwell Placer	Gold	Unknown
Brewster Red-E-Mix Concrete Co	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Okanogan 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
	Fort Okanogan Interpretive Center	1.3 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001883 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Okanogan County	All 16 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.