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Photograph of Appleton Log Hall
Photograph by Ian Poellet ( User:Werewombat ), CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Appleton Log Hall

Built in 1912. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“The Appleton Log Hall is a historic meeting hall in Appleton, a community in Klickitat County, Washington, United States.”

Wikipedia article Appleton Log Hall, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for Klickitat County · listed in 1992 · category: Building · built in 1912.

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. 835 Appleton Rd., Appleton, 98635
  • When was it listed? October 1992
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Dallesport-Klickitat
  • When was it built? 1912
  • National Register reference number. 92001294 - 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

107 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 107 fires within 5 miles of Appleton Log Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 275 acres in total. 11 started naturally. 7 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/undetermined25
Debris and open burning23
Recreation and ceremony17
Equipment and vehicle use12
Natural11
Arson/incendiarism7
Other causes4
Smoking4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks2

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
9 September 2018Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersRIVER VISTA
9 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreGifford Pinchot National Forest720
7 September 2010Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSAW
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCOLD SPRINGS
29 September 1993Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 September 2015Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersKLICKITAT RIVER
20 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.2 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersJOHNSON

Every fire recorded in Klickitat County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Appleton Log Hall: 2 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Aluminum, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Appleton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
White SalmonClay, AluminumProspect

Every working recorded in Klickitat 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92001294 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Klickitat CountyAll 9 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.