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One of 45 National Register listings published here for Clark County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Sara Store
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 17903 NW. 41st Ave., Ridgefield, 98642
- When was it listed? March 1995
- Category. building
- Census division. Vancouver
- National Register reference number. 95000304 - 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
71 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Sara Store between 1992 and 2020, burning about 50 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 6 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 | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 16 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 7 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 3 |
| Natural | 3 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
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 2015 | Debris and open burning | 2.4 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | WEST 50TH AVE |
| 24 September 1996 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 22 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 21 September 2002 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 18 September 1995 | Railroad operations and maintenance | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 14 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 3.1 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SHORTYS FIRE |
| 12 September 2014 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | POTATO |
| 12 September 2001 | Other causes | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Sara Store: 4 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mill Plain Pit | Stone | Producer | ||
| Salmon Creek Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sauvie Island | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sauvie Island | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
8 since 2004Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ridgefield, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 2004 and 2013: 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 2004 | Hail | Ridgefield | $7,500 | no account filed |
| May 2005 | Lightning | Ridgefield | $6,000 | Scattered thunderstorms produced heavy rain over the area. A storm near Ridgefield, WA produced heavy rains, sending 6 to 8 inches of water into a pump station. During that same storm, a lightning strike hit the pump station, burning out a control panel and disabling the station. |
| September 2013 | Flood | Ridgefield | - | A total of 9.54 inches was measured at Rock Creek from September 28, 2013 through September 30, 2013 which caused local flooding. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ridgefield | - | A wind gust knocked power lines down, and resulted in quite a lot of tree debris on the road. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ridgefield | - | A few wind-fallen trees were blocking a roadway. |
| September 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Ridgefield | - | A tornado ripped through the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge, lifting and damaging a mobile home office, blowing down trees and snapping large tree limbs. A tree was blown down on top of a car. |
| September 2004 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ridgefield | - | Strong thunderstorms moved through Clark county generating strong winds. The Clark County Emergency Manager reported numerous trees were blown down at the Ridgefield Wildlife Refuge. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Ridgefield | - | no account filed |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Arndt Prune Dryer | 1.8 miles | 1979 |
 | Lambert School | 2.1 miles | 1989 |
| Anderson-Beletski Prune Farm | 2.7 miles | 1986 | |
 | William Henry Shobert House | 4.0 miles | 1979 |
 | Heye H. and Eva Meyer Farmstead | 5.1 miles | 2015 |
| Clark County Poor Farm-Southwestern Washington Experiment Station | 6.2 miles | 2013 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 95000304 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.