Gallaher House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“The Gallaher House is a historic octagon house built by James Madison Kinney. James started building the house in 1912 and it was completed in the spring of 1914.”
Wikipedia article Gallaher House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

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. 600 12th St., Mansfield, 98813
When was it listed? June 1995
Category. building
Census division. Bridgeport
National Register reference number. 75001848 - 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

47 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Gallaher House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,541 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 2 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	9
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1
Firearms and explosives use	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 1993	Equipment and vehicle use	3.0 acres	Colville Agency	ZAHN ORCHA
30 September 2009	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Colville Agency	LAGRANGE ROAD
24 September 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colville Agency	JACK WELLS
21 September 2016	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Colville Agency	SQUIRREL FIRE
19 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Colville Agency	BRIDGEPORT
18 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Spokane District	CASTLE ROCK
14 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colville Agency	BRIDGEPORT
12 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.4 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BRIDGEPORT HILL

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Gallaher House: 13 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Pumice, 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	Recorded
Emerson Hanford Property	Stone, Dimension	Past Producer
Hicks Pit	Pumice	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Shotwell Placer	Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Shotwell Placer	Gold	Past Producer	Placer
Shotwell Placer	Gold	Unknown
Bridgeport Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Corps of Engineers Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Heintz Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

2 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mansfield, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2004 and 2015: 1 hail, 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
June 2015	Heavy Rain	Mansfield	-	A trained spotter reported 0.70 inches of rain that fell in 25 minutes along with pea size hail in Mansfield, WA.
May 2004	Hail	Mansfield	-	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
	Columbia River Bridge at Bridgeport	1.1 miles	1995

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001848 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.