Strap Iron Corral

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Strap Iron Corral, located about 5.8 miles (9.3 km) north of Hooper, Washington, is a historic corral built in the 1870s by "Uncle Jim" Kennedy. It was constructed of native rough-hewn lumber connected by 2.38-inch iron straps, once used as a cap for wooden rails of the Columbia River Railroad.”
Wikipedia article Strap Iron Corral, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Adams County · listed in 1975 · category: Structure.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. 5 mi. N of Hooper on Harder Ranch, Hooper, 99105
When was it listed? August 1975
Category. structure
Census division. Lind-Washtucna
National Register reference number. 75001837 - 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.

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company-Cow Creek Viaduct	0.3 miles	2018
	Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway Company-Cow Creek Viaduct	0.5 miles	2018

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001837 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Adams County	All 13 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.