BlockFrom the record
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Pacific County · listed in 1975 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Cape Disappointment Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
The listing
- Address. From 0.5 mi. S of Ilwaco to WA/OR boundary, Ilwaco, 98624
- When was it listed? August 1975
- Category. district
- Census division. Long Beach-North Beach Peninsula
- National Register reference number. 75001864 - 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
21 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Cape Disappointment Historic District between 1992 and 2019, burning about 58 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 18 September 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 10 September 1993 | Smoking | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 August 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 August 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | 27 acres | Oregon Department of Forestry Salem Headquarters | SOUTH JETTY |
| 29 August 2014 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LOOP RD |
| 25 August 1993 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 21 August 2003 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 12 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Cape Disappointment Historic District: 6 past producers, 5 occurrences, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Platinum, Iron, Zirconium, Titanium, Metal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beards Hollow Placer | Iron, Platinum, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium | Occurrence | Beach Placer | |
| Beards Hollow Placer | Platinum, Zirconium, Titanium, Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Fort Canby | Gold, Platinum, Iron, Zirconium, Titanium, Metal | Occurrence | Beach Placer | |
| Fort Canby Placer | Gold, Titanium, Iron | Prospect | ||
| Sand Island Placer | Gold, Iron, Titanium | Occurrence | ||
| O'Meara Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Fender | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Nahcotta Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2016Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ilwaco, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2016 and 2018: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2018 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ilwaco | - | Weather station on Cape Disappointment recorded wind gusts up to 67 mph. |
| October 2016 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ilwaco | - | Thunderstorms produced strong winds on and off through the morning, with the strongest gust of 63 mph at Cape Disappointment. |
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
5 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Colbert House | 2.1 miles | 1977 |
 | Peter Schulderman House | 3.2 miles | 1988 |
 | Shelburne Hotel | 3.6 miles | 1978 |
| Fort Columbia | 7.1 miles | 2025 | |
 | Chinook Point | 7.1 miles | 1966 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 75001864 in Record Group 79. |
| Pacific County | All 20 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.