Whitcomb Cabin

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Whitcomb Cabin is a historic 18-by-25-foot log cabin near Glenwood, Washington that was built in 1875. Whitcomb Cabin, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.”
Wikipedia article Whitcomb Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Klickitat County · listed in 1975 · 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 2 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 100 Wildlife Refuge Rd., 6 mi. W of Glenwood, Glenwood, 98619
When was it listed? June 1975
Category. building
Census division. Yakama Nation Reservation
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 75001860 - 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

69 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Whitcomb Cabin between 1992 and 2020, burning about 442 acres in total. 19 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
Natural	19
Recreation and ceremony	16
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	2
Smoking	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2008	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	RFD BARN FIRE
9 September 2005	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Conboy Lake National Wildlife Refuge	ASPEN
8 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CHAPMAN CREEK
8 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HOLMES CREEK
8 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LAUREL ROAD
7 September 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HOLMES CREEK
26 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LAUREL

Every fire recorded in Klickitat County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Whitcomb Cabin: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, Volcanic Materials, 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
Laurel	Pumice, Volcanic Materials	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Quigley Butte Cinders	Pumice	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Klickitat County

Storms near this property

2 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Glenwood, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1998 and 2011: 1 hail, 1 flood. 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
January 2011	Flood	Glenwood	-	Only minor flooding observed. The Klickitat River gauge at Pitt crested at 10.26, which was 1.26 feet above normal.
June 1998	Hail	Glenwood	-	A thunderstorm in Glenwood produced 3/4 inch hail and heavy rain.

Every storm recorded in Klickitat 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001860 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Klickitat County	All 9 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.