Built in 1909. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
From the record
“The Clark County Historical Museum, Vancouver, Washington, is located in a 1909 Carnegie library and is operated by the Clark County Historical Society, established in 1917. It opened at the old Carnegie Library building on May 24, 1964.”
Wikipedia article Clark County Historical Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 45 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1909.
Also known as. Carnegie Libraries of Washington TR
Census division. Vancouver
When was it built? 1909
National Register reference number.82004204- 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
14 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Vancouver Public Library
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 186 acres in total. None started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Arson/incendiarism
4
Debris and open burning
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
Other causes
1
Smoking
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 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
166 acres
Pacific Cascade Region-DNR
FRUIT VALLEY
2 August 2019
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
SHILLAPOO 2
18 August 1994
Other causes
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
12 August 2012
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
15TH MAPLE
1 August 2009
Smoking
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
BURNT BRIDGE
4 July 2015
Arson/incendiarism
13 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
SOUTH PADDEN
4 July 2015
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
ROADS END
21 July 2015
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
15 workings within 5 miles of Vancouver Public Library: 11 past producers, 3 producers, 1 plant.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Aluminum, Contained or Metal. 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
Vancouver, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 3 flood, 2 funnel cloud, 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind.
The reports record 5 injuries. 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.
A weak tornado briefly touched down in the Walnut Grove area of Vancouver, near I-205 and 4th Plain. A car was damaged, the roofing of a house was damaged, and a small shed was blown over.
A short-lived funnel cloud was observed close to the Columbia River in Vancouver, WA by multiple people in Vancouver, Washington and from across the river in Portland Oregon.
The Columbia River at Vancouver crested several times above flood stage May 17 through May 19th, with the highest crest at 16.14 feet around 8:15 AM on May 17th. This is 0.14 foot above flood stage. No damage was reported.
Recent heavy rains and snowmelt from the Cascades and eastern Washington led to rising river levels on the Columbia River. The river crested at 17.59 ft on March 30th, which is 1.59 feet above flood stage. The river remained above flood stage until April 3rd.
To start off April, the Columbia River gauge at Vancouver was up around 17.22 ft, which is 1.22 ft above flood stage. On April 3rd, the river finally dropped below flood stage.
A funnel cloud was observed about 2 miles WNW of the Portland International airport. The observer estimated that it extended 200 to 300 feet below the cloud base. The funnel cloud lasted approximately 5 minutes.
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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