San Juan County, Washington

49 topographic sheets cover 27 settlements here, and 21 properties are on the National Register of Historic Places.

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From the record

21 National Register listings published here, 1 of them a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

Washington within the United States

San Juan County within Washington

What the record shows

309 topographic sheet readings cover the county's settlements.
21 properties here are on the National Register of Historic Places: 12 buildings, 7 districts, 1 structure and 1 site.
5 of the 21 listings were added during the 1970s.
The Geographic Names Information System records 27 populated places in this county; 27 are covered by at least one topographic sheet.

Places on the National Register

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

Property	Type	Listed	Reference
Alderbrook Farmhouse	building	1985	85002919
American and English Camps, San Juan Island	district	1966	09000465
Center School	building	2022	100007711
Crow Valley School	building	1987	87001457
Doe Bay General Store and Post Office	building	1986	86001017
Michael and Myra Donohue House	building	2013	12001161
Emmanuel Episcopal Church	building	1994	94001431
Krumdiack Homestead	district	1993	93000367
Little Red Schoolhouse	building	1973	73001886
Moran State Park	district	2013	12001140
Orcas Hotel	building	1982	82004284
Patos Island Light Station	structure	1977	77001355
Port Stanley School	building	1994	94001437
Roche Harbor	district	1977	77001356
Rosario	building	1978	78002772
San Juan County Courthouse	building	1984	84003603
San Juan Island National Historic Site	district	1966	66000369
San Juan Island, Lime Kiln Light Station	site	1978	78002771
San Juan Lime Company-Cowell's	district	2007	07000136
Tacoma Building	building	2001	01001162
Tharald Homestead	district	2002	01001473

Wildfire, 1992 to 2020

192 fires

Every wildfire the federal occurrence database records inside this county: 192 of them, burning about 104 acres. 7 started naturally and none was recorded as arson. Each settlement page carries the fires within five miles of it.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	65
Debris and open burning	42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	23
Fireworks	21
Smoking	12
Equipment and vehicle use	11
Natural	7
Misuse of fire by a minor	7
Other causes	2
Firearms and explosives use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The five largest, by the area the report gives. None of them was recorded as arson.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 October 2002	Debris and open burning	10 acres	Olympic National Park	SAJH AMERI
15 July 2018	Firearms and explosives use	6.7 acres	San Juan Island National Historical Park	AMERICAN CAMP
25 July 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5.2 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BAKERS BLUFF - STELLITE IS
7 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
11 August 1997	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	3.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
10 June 2009	Debris and open burning	3.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BOBBY ANNE
19 August 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	2.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

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

Storms, 2001 to 2021

5 of 5 shown

The NOAA Storm Events Database holds 5 reports for this county, causing no deaths, no injuries and about $510,000 in recorded property damage. Each settlement page carries the reports that name it.

Kind of event	Reports
Heavy Rain	2
Thunderstorm Wind	1
Funnel Cloud	1
Flood	1

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

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
November 2021	Flood	Deer Harbor	$475,000	Heavy rain cause urban and small stream flooding, washing out some roads.
June 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Orcas	$25,000	Thunderstorm winds blew a tree into a cabin, knocking down a wall and damaging parts of the interior.
September 2015	Heavy Rain	Friday Harbor	$10,000	The rain culminated in a rushing torrent of water down the sidewalks and pooling on First Street. Cars were up to their bumpers in water, and about five inches of rain water pooled in Kings Market, which had to close temporarily in order to remove the water.
December 2012	Funnel Cloud	Friday Harbor	-	An unconfirmed funnel cloud lasting less than a minute was spotted on the west side of San Juan Island.
August 2001	Heavy Rain	Countywide	-	no account filed

Mines and quarries

77 recorded

The Survey's mineral resources record lists 77 workings inside this county. 1 still produces and 76 are closed or unrecorded. Each settlement page carries the workings within five miles of it.

Commodity	Workings
Limestone, General	53
Sand and Gravel, Construction	14
Stone, Crushed/Broken	4
Flagstone	3
Feldspar	1
Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken	1
Clay	1
Kyanite	1
Limestone, Dimension	1

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

Site	Commodity	Status
Blakely Island	Kyanite	Occurrence
Deer Harbor Feldspar Deposit	Feldspar	Occurrence
Mcgraw-Kittinger Deposit	Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Orcas Island	Clay	Past Producer
Roche Harbor Quarries	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Alaska Barge Co. Quarry	Flagstone, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Reid Harbor Quarries	Flagstone	Past Producer
Sucia Island Quarries	Flagstone	Past Producer
Humphrey Head Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
North Beach Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Prospect
Erismann Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Friday Harbor Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lopez Redi-Mix Pit and Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lopez Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lopez Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sea Island Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Shoal Bay Pit No. 2	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
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed [Ot	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Biendle Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Buck Mountain Deposit No. 1	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Caldwell Point Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Camp Indralaya Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Chuckanut Lime Co. Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Cliff Island Deposit	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Cowell Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Crane Island Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Davison Head Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Deadman Bay Deposits	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Double Hill Deposit No. 1	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Englehartson Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
English Camp Deposit	Limestone, General	Prospect
Entrance Mountain Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Eureka Deposit	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Flaherty Deposit No. 1	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Four Winds Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Fowler Deposit No. 1	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Hannah Area Outcrop A	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Hannah Area Outcrop B	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Henry Island Deposit No. 1	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Imperial Lime Co. Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Johnson Quarries	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Jones Island Depsoit No. 1	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Judd Cove Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Kellett Bluff Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Krumdick	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Langdon Deposit South Part	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Langell Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Lawson Cave Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Limestone Point Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Mitchell Bay Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Moran State Park Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Mount Dallas Deposits	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Newhall	Limestone, General	Occurrence
O'Neal Island	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Olga Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Open Bay Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Payton	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Pineo Deposits No. 1 and 2	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Raccoon Point Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Red Cross Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Rosario Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Rouleau	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Rulo	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Rusch Deposit No. 1	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Soderberg Quarries	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Welch Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
West Sound Quarries	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Wilson Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Wright Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Yansen Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Young Hill East Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence

Every populated place in the county

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.

Argyle

San Juan Island census division · 98250 · Near Dinner Island · Friday Harbor quadrangle

10 sheets, 1954 to 1981
Beach Haven

Orcas census division · 98245 · Near Freeman Island · Eastsound quadrangle

12 sheets, 1943 to 1997
Buckhorn

Orcas census division · 98245 · Near Buck Mountain · Mount Constitution quadrangle

12 sheets, 1943 to 1978
Camp Orkila

Orcas census division · 98245 · Near Freeman Island · Eastsound quadrangle

12 sheets, 1943 to 1997
Decatur

Lopez census division · 98221 · On Decatur Island · Blakely Island quadrangle

13 sheets, 1943 to 1997
Deer Harbor

Orcas census division · 98243 · Near Fawn Island · Shaw Island quadrangle

11 sheets, 1943 to 1975
Doe Bay

Orcas census division · 98279 · Near Doe Island · Mount Constitution quadrangle

12 sheets, 1943 to 1978
Dolphin

Orcas census division · 98245 · Near Mount Woolard · Eastsound quadrangle

12 sheets, 1943 to 1997
Eastsound

Orcas census division · 98245 · Near Double Hill · Eastsound quadrangle

12 sheets, 1943 to 1997
Friday Harbor

San Juan Island census division · 98250 · Near Brown Island · Friday Harbor quadrangle

10 sheets, 1954 to 1981
Islandale

Lopez census division · 98261 · Near Crab Island · Lopez Pass quadrangle

12 sheets, 1943 to 1998
Lakedale

San Juan Island census division · 98250 · Friday Harbor quadrangle

10 sheets, 1954 to 1981
Lopez

Lopez census division · 98261 · Shaw Island quadrangle

11 sheets, 1943 to 1975
Olga

Orcas census division · 98279 · On Cascade Creek · Blakely Island quadrangle

13 sheets, 1943 to 1997
Orcas

Orcas census division · 98280 · Near Oak Island · Shaw Island quadrangle

11 sheets, 1943 to 1975
Port Stanley

Lopez census division · 98261 · Near Flower Island · Blakely Island quadrangle

13 sheets, 1943 to 1997
Prevost

San Juan Island census division · 98250 · Near Lofgren Mountain · Stuart Island quadrangle

8 sheets, 1953 to 1981
Richardson

Lopez census division · 98261 · On Richardson Rock · Richardson quadrangle

12 sheets, 1943 to 1998
Roche Harbor

San Juan Island census division · 98250 · Near Pearl Island · Roche Harbor quadrangle

10 sheets, 1954 to 1981
Rosario

Orcas census division · 98245 · On Rosario Hill · Mount Constitution quadrangle

12 sheets, 1943 to 1997
Sea Acre

Orcas census division · 98279 · Near North Peapod · Mount Constitution quadrangle

12 sheets, 1943 to 1978
Shaw Island

Lopez census division · 98286 · Near Blind Island · Shaw Island quadrangle

11 sheets, 1943 to 1975
Thatcher

Lopez census division · 98222 · By Bald Bluff · Blakely Island quadrangle

13 sheets, 1943 to 1997
Waldron

Orcas census division · 98297 · Near Disney Mountain · Waldron Island quadrangle

11 sheets, 1954 to 1997
West Beach

Orcas census division · 98245 · Near Freeman Island · Eastsound quadrangle

12 sheets, 1943 to 1997
West Sound

Orcas census division · 98245 · Near Crow Valley · Eastsound quadrangle

12 sheets, 1943 to 1997
Yacht Haven

San Juan Island census division · 98250 · Near Guss Island · Roche Harbor quadrangle

10 sheets, 1954 to 1981

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.