Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
From the record
“The Arndt Prune Dryer is a specialized agricultural building in Ridgefield, Washington. Built about 1898, it is one of the last traditional farm-built prune dryer buildings in Washington, using a wood fire and natural draft to dry locally grown fruit.”
Wikipedia article Arndt Prune Dryer, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 45 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79002527- 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
63 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Arndt Prune Dryer
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning
25
Recreation and ceremony
8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
8
Other causes
4
Natural
4
Arson/incendiarism
3
Smoking
3
Fireworks
2
Equipment and vehicle use
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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
8 September 2015
Debris and open burning
2.4 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
WEST 50TH AVE
24 September 1996
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
21 September 2002
Recreation and ceremony
1.5 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
21 September 1994
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
19 September 1999
Other causes
1.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
18 September 1995
Railroad operations and maintenance
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
14 September 2016
Debris and open burning
3.1 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
SHORTYS FIRE
12 September 2014
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Arndt Prune Dryer: 5 past producers, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Ridgefield, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2013: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning.
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.
Scattered thunderstorms produced heavy rain over the area. A storm near Ridgefield, WA produced heavy rains, sending 6 to 8 inches of water into a pump station. During that same storm, a lightning strike hit the pump station, burning out a control panel and disabling the station.
A tornado ripped through the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge, lifting and damaging a mobile home office, blowing down trees and snapping large tree limbs. A tree was blown down on top of a car.
Strong thunderstorms moved through Clark county generating strong winds. The Clark County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees were blown down at the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge.
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
6 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.
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.
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