Colbert House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“The Colbert House is a historic house museum owned by Washington State Parks and located in Ilwaco, Washington, at the corner of Quaker and Lake streets. The house was originally built in 1872 and was moved to its current site in 1883.”
Wikipedia article Colbert House (Ilwaco, Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Pacific County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Quaker and Lake Sts., Ilwaco, 98624
When was it listed? October 1977
Category. building
Census division. Long Beach-North Beach Peninsula
National Register reference number. 77001347 - 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Colbert House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 36 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Fireworks	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Smoking	1
Natural	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
4 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	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
17 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	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
9 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	PIONEER
7 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Pacific County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Colbert House: 7 past producers, 6 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.

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
Templin Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Fender	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence
Long Beach	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Pacific County

Storms near this property

2 since 2016

Regional 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.

Every storm recorded in Pacific 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

5 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
Peter Schulderman House	1.8 miles	1988
Shelburne Hotel	2.0 miles	1978
Cape Disappointment Historic District	2.1 miles	1975
Chinook Point	6.7 miles	1966
Fort Columbia	6.7 miles	2025

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77001347 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.