Photograph of Pomeroy Living History Farm — Photograph by Curtis Allworth, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Pomeroy Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Pomeroy Living History Farm is a 501(c)(3) non-profit farm museum on the National Register of Historic Places. Located in Yacolt, Washington, the site is an interactive recreation of a 1920s working farm, based on the original Pomeroy family's 1910 home and outlying structures and occupying 60 of the property's full 677 acres (2.74 km2).”
Wikipedia article Pomeroy Living History Farm, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 45 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 20902 N.E. Lucia Falls Rd., Yacolt, 98675
When was it listed? March 1987
Category. building
Census division. Yacolt
National Register reference number. 87000413 - 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

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Pomeroy Farm between 1992 and 2020, burning about 72 acres in total. 1 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
Debris and open burning	65
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Recreation and ceremony	14
Misuse of fire by a minor	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	1
Fireworks	1
Natural	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	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	PARKSIDE
8 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	354TH ST
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WIEHL
3 September 2013	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WEST GARNER
3 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LONG DRIVE
3 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
26 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Clark County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Pomeroy Farm: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Colt Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Crawford	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Maple Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clark County

Storms near this property

2 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Yacolt, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2008: 1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Yacolt	-	A wind gust knocked a small tree down, blocking a roadway.
September 1997	Tornado (F0)	Yacolt	-	A weak tornado near Yacolt knocked down 3 trees and a telephone pole.

Every storm recorded in Clark 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

5 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
Henry Heisen House	2.0 miles	1979
Lewisville Park	4.2 miles	1986
Albert and Letha Green House and Barn	4.8 miles	1982
Amboy United Brethren Church	5.0 miles	2008
Venersborg School	5.0 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87000413 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clark County	All 45 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.