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Photograph of Garfield County Courthouse
Photograph by Calvin Beale, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Garfield County Courthouse

Built in 1901 (Victorian architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“The Garfield County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Pomeroy, Washington, United States, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).”

Wikipedia article Garfield County Courthouse (Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 3 National Register listings published here for Garfield County · listed in 1974 · category: Building · built in 1901, Victorian architecture.

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. 8th and Main Sts., Pomeroy, 99347
  • When was it listed? July 1974
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Pomeroy
  • When was it built? 1901
  • Architectural style. Victorian architecture
  • National Register reference number. 74001951 - 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

1 since 2017

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Garfield County Courthouse in 2017, burning about 178 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
27 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undetermined178 acresWashington State Fire Marshal's OfficeHILL FIRE COMPLEX

Every fire recorded in Garfield 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 Garfield County Courthouse: 6 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Platinum, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
PomeroyGold, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Platinum, IronOccurrenceStream Placer
Cyrus PitSand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Trosper Transit Mix ConcreteSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Keatts QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Knettle QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Pomeroy QuarryyStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer

Every working recorded in Garfield County

Storms near this property

7 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pomeroy, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 5 hail, 2 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
January 2000Thunderstorm WindPomeroy$15,000Semi truck blown off the road
July 2014HailPomeroy$5,000Hail ranging from quarters to the size of golf balls fell across northern Garfield County impacting the communities of Pomeroy and Mayview. The hail dented three cars and broke sky lights in a metal building at Dye Seed Ranch. Hail also damaged some of the wheat crop.
June 2021HailPomeroy-Numerous reports of hail, from 1 to 1.25 inches, fell in Pomeroy as two strong thunderstorm cells moved across northern Garfield.
August 2019HailPomeroy-A member of the public reported hail with a diameter of 1 inch from a thunderstorms near Pomeroy.
May 1997Thunderstorm WindPomeroy-70 mph gust
May 1997HailPomeroy-2 inch diameter hail
June 2006HailPomeroy-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Garfield 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

2 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
Downtown Pomeroy Historic District0.1 miles2003
Lewis and Clark Trail-Travois Road6.1 miles1974

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74001951 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garfield CountyAll 3 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.