Photograph of The Wreckage — Photograph by Jon Roanhaus, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Wreckage, The

Built in 1912 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Wreckage is a log house in Ocean Park, Washington, constructed of unhewn logs in 1912. Allison on the Long Beach Peninsula as a beach house, using salvaged materials.”
Wikipedia article The Wreckage (Ocean Park, Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Pacific County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1912, rustic architecture.

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. 256th Pl., Ocean Park, 98640
When was it listed? September 1979
Category. building
Census division. Long Beach-North Beach Peninsula
When was it built? 1912
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 79002547 - 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

44 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 44 fires within 5 miles of Wreckage, The between 1992 and 2020, burning about 59 acres in total. None 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
Fireworks	11
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Misuse of fire by a minor	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Smoking	3
Arson/incendiarism	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
4 September 1994	Fireworks	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
30 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
25 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 September 1993	Smoking	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 August 1997	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
24 August 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
18 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
16 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Pacific 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 Wreckage, The: 2 occurrences, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Platinum, Gold, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Gold, Titanium, Iron, Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Nahcotta	Platinum, Gold, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium	Occurrence	Beach Placer
Ocean Park Placer	Gold, Titanium, Iron	Occurrence
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working 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

3 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
Klipsan Beach Life Saving Station	1.6 miles	1979
Shogren Cottage	1.8 miles	2019
Oysterville Historic District	4.3 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002547 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.