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Photograph of Columbia River Quarantine Station
Photograph by Ian Poellet, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Columbia River Quarantine Station

Built in 1899. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

“The Columbia River Quarantine Station, now known as the Knappton Cove Heritage Center, is a historic site in Knappton, Washington. The station provided fumigation and quarantine services to maritime vessels at the port on the Columbia River from 1899 to 1938, and is the sole remaining quarantine station on the West Coast of the United States as all others were burned for fear of contamination.”

Wikipedia article Columbia River Quarantine Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Pacific County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1899.

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. SW of Knappton on WA 401, Knappton, 98638
  • When was it listed? February 1980
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Naselle
  • When was it built? 1899
  • National Register reference number. 80004007 - 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

3 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Columbia River Quarantine Station between 1998 and 2013, burning about 221 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/undetermined1
Fireworks1
Debris and open burning1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
4 July 2003Fireworksunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
23 November 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined119 acresPacific Cascade Region-DNRCHINOOK VALLEY
20 October 1998Debris and open burning102 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Every fire recorded in Pacific County

Mines and quarries near this property

7 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Columbia River Quarantine Station: 4 past producers, 1 producer, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Iron, Titanium, Zirconium, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
KnapptonLimestone, GeneralPast Producer
Mc Gowan PlacerIron, Titanium, ZirconiumProspect
Mc Gowan QuerryFlagstonePast Producer
MeglerSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrence
Chinook QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Provo QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Unnamed QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast 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

2 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Chinook Point4.3 miles1966
Fort Columbia4.5 miles2025

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 80004007 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pacific CountyAll 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.