Capitol Hill, Washington

Buildings and businesses the archive holds for this place. Each opens its own page, with the source record it came from.

On the National Register within a mile 12 of 43 shown

The National Register names another town for these. They stand within one mile of this settlement's coordinate.

• DUWAMISHNational Historic Landmark · listed 1989 · 0.9 miles away
• RELIEF (lightship)National Historic Landmark · listed 1975 · 0.9 miles away
• ARTHUR FOSS (tugboat)National Historic Landmark · listed 1989 · 0.9 miles away
• VIRGINIA VNational Historic Landmark · listed 1973 · 0.9 miles away
• Cornish Schoollisted 1977 · 0.2 miles away
• R. D. Merrill Houselisted 1977 · 0.3 miles away
• Highland Apartmentslisted 2018 · 0.3 miles away
• 1600 East John Street Apartmentslisted 2013 · 0.4 miles away
• Harvard-Belmont Districtlisted 1982 · 0.4 miles away
• First Methodist Protestant Church of Seattlelisted 1993 · 0.5 miles away
• Samuel Hill Houselisted 1976 · 0.5 miles away
• Volunteer Parklisted 1976 · 0.5 miles away

Every listing in King County

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1894 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1895 USGS Snohomish quadrangle1:125000
• 1897 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1897 USGS Snohomish quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
• 1908 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1909 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1909 USGS Seattle Special quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
• 1949 USGS Seattle South quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
• 1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000
• 1983 USGS Seattle South quadrangle1:25000, 3 printings
• 1992 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Capitol Hill in 2017, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None was 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.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

• Beacon Hill
• Beaumont
• Beaux Arts Village
• Bellevue
• Brighton
• Broadmoor

Every fire recorded in King County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Capitol Hill: 3 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Every working recorded in King County

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512065. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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.