Bank of Starbuck

Built in 1904. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Bank of Starbuck, at Main and McNeil Sts. in Starbuck, Washington, is a historic building built in 1904. After the bank closed in the 1930s, it was taken over by the city for use as City Hall.”
Wikipedia article Bank of Starbuck, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1904.

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. Main and McNeil Sts., Starbuck, 99359
When was it listed? February 1978
Category. building
Census division. Starbuck
When was it built? 1904
National Register reference number. 78002739 - 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

2 since 2016

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Bank of Starbuck in 2016, burning about 11,548 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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 August 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9,168 acres	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	FLETCHER ROAD
17 July 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2,380 acres	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	STARBUCK

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Bank of Starbuck: 4 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Pumice, 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
Starbuck	Pumice	Occurrence
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Grange City Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Starbuck Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Starbuck Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Storms near this property

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Starbuck, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2006: 1 hail, 1 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
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Starbuck	-	Numerous large tree limbs down. Shingles off roofs.
June 2001	Hail	Starbuck	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Columbia 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
	Snake River Bridge	6.8 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 78002739 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia 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.