Nat Smith House

Built in 1885. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Cowlitz County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1885.

Sources: 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.
Listed as. Smith, Nat, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 110 W. Grant St., Kelso, 98626
When was it listed? March 1975
Category. building
Census division. Longview-Kelso
When was it built? 1885
National Register reference number. 75001846 - 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

128 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Nat Smith House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 197 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning	42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	32
Recreation and ceremony	22
Other causes	7
Railroad operations and maintenance	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Fireworks	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Smoking	2
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 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MILL STREET
6 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	OWL CREEK
4 September 2009	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MT. BRYNION RD
28 September 2016	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters	HARBOR VIEW DR. #1
25 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
23 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
20 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
2 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	55 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Cowlitz County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 32 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Nat Smith House: 24 past producers, 5 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 plant. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Aluminum, Stone, Dimension. 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
(Facility) Longview Aluminum Smelter	Aluminum, Contained or Metal	Plant
Grady Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Mount 5640 Quarry	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Longview	Aluminum	Occurrence
Section 4	Aluminum	Occurrence
40th Street Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Corman Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Deal Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Headquarters Rd. Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Kelley Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cowlitz County

Storms near this property

10 since 2005

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kelso, the town this property stands in, in 10 storm reports between 2005 and 2017: 8 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain. 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
December 2015	Flood	Kelso	$2,098,000	The Cowlitz River at Kelso exceeded flood stage. Rises of the Kalama River resulted in flood damage of many businesses in Kalama including Motel 6, Remax, and the Burger Bar. Camp Kalama was closed due to flooding of the Kalama River. The I-5 offramp in Longview was closed due to high water.
March 2017	Flood	Kelso	-	Heavy rain in addition to high river levels on the Columbia River caused the Cowlitz River near Kelso to flood. The river crested at 22.10 feet, which is 0.60 feet above flood stage.
November 2015	Flood	Kelso	-	Heavy rain caused the Cowlitz River near Kelso to flood. The river crested at 22.1 feet, which is 0.6 ft above flood stage.
January 2009	Flood	Kelso	-	Heavy rain caused flooding along the Cowlitz and Coweman Rivers which resulted in the evacuation of 4000 people.
January 2007	Heavy Rain	Kelso	-	A total accumulation of 1.71 inches was reported at Washougal.
December 2007	Flood	Kelso	-	The Cowlitz River flooded near Kelso, causing only minor flooding.
November 2006	Flood	Kelso	-	The Cowlitz River at Kelso crested at 23.1 feet on November 7th, with a flood stage of 21.5 feet.
January 2006	Flood	Kelso	-	no account filed
January 2006	Flood	Kelso	-	no account filed
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Kelso	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Cowlitz 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

6 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Adam Catlin House	under 500 feet	1994
US Post Office-Kelso Main	0.3 miles	1991
Columbia Theater	0.9 miles	1985
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Building	0.9 miles	1985
Willard Building	0.9 miles	1985
Big Four Furniture Building	1.0 miles	1985

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001846 in Record Group 79.
Cowlitz County	All 30 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.