Old Tacoma, 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 14 shown

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

• FIREBOAT NO.1National Historic Landmark · listed 1983 · 0.7 miles away
• Slavonian Halllisted 1976 · 0.1 miles away
• North 23rd Street Bridgelisted 1982 · 0.2 miles away
• St. Peter's Episcopal Churchlisted 1974 · 0.3 miles away
• Lord-Heuston Houselisted 2008 · 0.4 miles away
• Conrad F. & Annie K. Beutel Houselisted 2008 · 0.5 miles away
• North 21st Street Bridgelisted 1982 · 0.6 miles away
• William Ross Rust Houselisted 1985 · 0.7 miles away
• Stadium-Seminary Historic Districtlisted 1977 · 0.9 miles away
• Washington Schoollisted 2006 · 0.9 miles away
• North Slope Historic Districtlisted 2003 · 0.9 miles away
• Henry A. and Birdella Rhodes Houselisted 2006 · 1.0 miles away

Every listing in Pierce 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.

• 1897 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 2 printings
• 1900 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:125000, 9 printings
• 1949 USGS Tacoma North quadrangle1:24000
• 1958 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
• 1961 USGS Tacoma North quadrangle1:24000, 5 printings
• 1962 USGS Seattle quadrangle1:250000
• 1975 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
• 1991 USGS Tacoma quadrangle1:100000
• 1997 USGS Tacoma North quadrangle1:24000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Old Tacoma between 2001 and 2005, burning about 40 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:

• Browns Point
• Cebalop (historical)
• Fort Nisqually
• Gig Harbor
• Harbor Heights
• Midway

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Old Tacoma: 10 past producers, 2 plants. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Nickel, Arsenic, Aluminum, Contained or Metal. 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 Pierce 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 1511202. 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.