Nisqually, 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 1 record

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

• Nisqually Schoollisted 1990 · 0.6 miles away

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.

• 1940 USGS Anderson Island quadrangle1:62500
• 1948 USGS Anderson Island quadrangle1:62500
• 1948 USGS Nisqually quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1959 USGS Anderson Island quadrangle1:62500
• 1959 USGS Nisqually quadrangle1:24000, 6 printings
• 1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
• 1997 USGS Nisqually quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 224 fires within 5 miles of Nisqually between 1992 and 2020, burning about 197 acres in total. None started naturally. 13 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.

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:

• Mushroom Corner
• Saint Clair
• Tanglewilde
• Union Mill
• Kellys Korner
• Thompson Place

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Nisqually: 7 past producers, 3 producers, 1 prospect. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron. 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 Thurston County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Nisqually in 1 storm report in 2003: 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

Every storm recorded in Thurston 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 1513175. 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.

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.