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Island County, Washington

91 topographic sheets cover 54 settlements here, and 15 properties are on the National Register of Historic Places.

Research this county

From the record

15 National Register listings published here.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

Washington within the United States
Island County within Washington

What the record shows

  • 770 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
  • 15 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 6 districts, 5 buildings, 3 structures and 1 site.
  • 3 of the 15 listings were added during the 1970s.
  • The Geographic Names Information System records 54 populated places in this county; 54 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Places on the National Register

15

Every property in this county listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with the year it was listed and the federal nomination document.

Photograph PropertyType ListedReference
Cama Beach Resortdistrict200101000505
Central Whidbey Island Historic Districtdistrict197373001869
Deception Pass State Park-Cornet Bay Fire Circlestructure2019100004769
Deception Pass State Park-Cornet Bay Incineratorstructure2019100004771
Deception Pass State Park-Cranberry Lake Bathing and Picnic Area Historic Districtdistrict2019100004770
Deception Pass State Park-Cranberry Lake Caretaker's Area Historic Districtdistrict2019100004647
Deception Pass State Park-North Beach Picnic Area Historic Districtdistrict2019100004645
Deception Pass State Park-Rosario and Bowman Bathing, Picnic, and Caretaker's Areas Historic Districtdistrict2019100004772
Colonel Granville & Henrietta Haller Housebuilding2022100008426
Kristoferson Dairybuilding201211000986
Benjamin Loers Housebuilding197777001334
Olympic Clubbuilding199191000630
Schooner SUVAstructure2025100012445
Smith Island Light Stationsite197878002746
Utsalady Ladies Aid Buildingbuilding199898001186

Wildfire, 1992 to 2020

257 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 257 of them, burning about 189 acres. 5 started naturally and 11 were recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause Fires
Debris and open burning94
Recreation and ceremony77
Fireworks22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Smoking12
Arson/incendiarism11
Misuse of fire by a minor11
Natural5
Other causes4
Equipment and vehicle use4

The five largest, by the area the report gives. One of them was set deliberately.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
11 October 2003Equipment and vehicle use18 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
1 August 1996Fireworks15 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 July 2015Missing data/not specified/undetermined15 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersDOUBLE BLUFF
12 August 1996Misuse of fire by a minor12 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 July 2015Misuse of fire by a minor10 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersEBEY
17 September 1995Debris and open burning5.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
14 August 1992Recreation and ceremony5.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
19 July 2000Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Every settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it - see the settlement index below.

Storms, 1986 to 2014

6 of 6 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 6 reports for this county, causing no deaths, no injuries and about $530,000 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event Reports
Heavy Rain2
Debris Flow2
Thunderstorm Wind1
Flood1

The most serious of them, by death, then injury, then recorded damage. The accounts are quoted exactly as the forecast office filed them.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
December 2014Debris FlowClinton$250,000A house along the private sidewalk Brighton Boardwalk in Clinton was destroyed by a Sunday afternoon mudslide. The house next door was also damaged.
January 2013Debris FlowClinton$250,000Neighbors are cleaning up after a Wednesday afternoon landslide destroyed a home and damaged others on Whidbey Island. The house that took the brunt of the force was turned almost sideways and is now just inches away from falling into Puget Sound. Nobody was hurt in the 100-yard slide, but a lot of damage was done to several summer homes.
December 2007Heavy RainClinton$20,000A private school in Clinton was flooded by over an inch of water.
April 2009FloodGlendale$10,000Heavy rain over Whidbey Island, from a stationary Puget Sound convergence zone, caused enough flow on Glendale Creek to burst a beaver dam. Subsequent rain and plugging of a culvert on Glendale Road led to part of the road being washed away. The flood stream eventually damaged about 8 homes.
August 2001Heavy RainCountywide-no account filed
January 1986Thunderstorm Windnot stated-no account filed

Mines and quarries

35 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 35 workings inside this county. 8 still produce and 27 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity Workings
Sand and Gravel, Construction32
REE2
Diatomite1

The least common of them first, because a county's hundredth gravel pit says nothing its first ten did not.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Useless BayDiatomiteOccurrence
Greenbank Sand & GravelREEProducer
Henni Pit and MillREEProducer
Airport PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Camano Island Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Christensen Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Christie PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Coupeville PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Erling PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Everett Bros.Sand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Good Beach PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Harrington Lagoon PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Island County Road Dept. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Island Excavators PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Keystone PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Krieg PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Libbey-Didco PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Marine Asphalt Pit 3Sand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oak Harbor PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oak Harbor PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Oak Harbor PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Penn Cove PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Prairie Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Trask PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Veit Asphalt Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Whidbey Island Highway 20 PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Whidbey Island Pit and MillSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Whidbey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every populated place in the county

54

Named settlements recorded in the Geographic Names Information System, each with the topographic sheets covering it. Villages, hamlets and abandoned places alike. Each is shown with the nearest named watercourse or landform and the survey quadrangle it falls on.

The vanished settlements of Island County: the places named above that are no longer on the map.

Provenance

  • Topographic sheets. USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection, county index, measured from the bulk metadata.
  • Fire insurance maps. Library of Congress Sanborn collection, faceted to this county.
  • Photographs. Each place queried individually against the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs search.
  • 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.