Stella Blacksmith Shop

Built in 1907. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.

From the record

One of 30 National Register listings published here for Cowlitz County · listed in 1985 · category: Building · built in 1907.

Sources: 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. 8530 Ocean Beach Hwy., Stella, 98632
When was it listed? December 1985
Category. building
Census division. Castle Rock
When was it built? 1907
National Register reference number. 85003204 - 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

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Stella Blacksmith Shop between 1992 and 2020, burning about 57 acres in total. 1 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	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	17
Recreation and ceremony	14
Smoking	6
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Other causes	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	2
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
9 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
9 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Columbia City Unit	ALSTON-MAYGER ROAD
5 September 2011	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CAMERON CREEK
4 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DRIFTING WILLOW
3 September 2007	Smoking	under an acre	Columbia City Unit	STEWART CREEK ROAD #1
3 September 2005	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	700
26 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BUNKER HILL

Every fire recorded in Cowlitz County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Stella Blacksmith Shop: 18 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Aluminum. 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
Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Area	Aluminum, Silica, Titanium, Iron, Water, Free, Phosphorus-Phosphates	Prospect	1946
Sig Fransen Clay Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Mayger Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Mill Creek Area	Aluminum	Occurrence
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Washington Bauxite Dist.	Aluminum	Occurrence	1946
Coal Creek Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sand Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Cowlitz 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	J. D. Tennant House	6.7 miles	1984
	Berwind-Purcell House	7.3 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 85003204 in Record Group 79.
Cowlitz County	All 30 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.