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One of 22 National Register listings published here for Grays Harbor County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Neil Cooney Mansion
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Listed as. Cooney, Neil, Mansion - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 802 E. 5th St., Cosmopolis, 98537
- When was it listed? July 1983
- Category. building
- Census division. Aberdeen-Hoquiam
- National Register reference number. 83003324 - 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
41 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of Neil Cooney Mansion between 1992 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 10 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 7 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 1992 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 September 1999 | Smoking | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 September 1995 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 28 September 2012 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | ABERDEEN LAKE #2 |
| 25 September 2006 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 19 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Pacific Cascade Region-DNR | HUNTLEY |
| 19 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BISHOP |
| 9 August 2012 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SKUNK CABAGE FIRE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 21 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Neil Cooney Mansion: 20 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cow Point Placer | Gold | Occurrence | ||
| Newskah Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| East Aberdeen | Silica | Past Producer | ||
| West Aberdeen | Silica | Past Producer | ||
| Mayr Newskah Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Newshak Lower 5.11 | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Newskah Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Newskah Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Upper Newskah Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cosmopolis, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2012: 3 heavy rain, 1 flood. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 1996 | Flood | Cosmopolis | 1 killed | no account filed |
| November 2008 | Heavy Rain | Cosmopolis | $500,000 | Softened ground from heavy rain combined with strong winds blew down several trees, and their dislodged root balls collapsed an earthen section of the Mill Creek dam near Cosmopolis. A footbridge was knocked out and some nearby residential areas were flooded. |
| December 2005 | Heavy Rain | Cosmopolis | $100,000 | Heavy rain caused part of Highway 107 between Montesano and Cosmopolis to buckle and split, making the road impassable. |
| November 2012 | Heavy Rain | Cosmopolis | $15,000 | A hole about six foot, by six foot, opened up in the roadway. An SUV plunged front first into the hole and about 4 feet of mud. No one was injured. There was some minor building flooding in Aberdeen. |
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
6 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | SIERRA (motor ship) | 2.3 miles | 1978 |
 | Hotel Morck | 2.8 miles | 2016 |
 | Edward & Laura Hulbert House | 3.3 miles | 2018 |
 | Hoquiam Olympic Stadium | 4.6 miles | 2006 |
 | Hoquiam River Bridge | 5.3 miles | 1982 |
 | Polson, F. Arnold, House and Polson, Alex, Grounds | 5.6 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 83003324 in Record Group 79. |
| Grays Harbor County | All 22 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.