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 12 of 102 shown

• FIREBOAT NO.1National Historic Landmark · listed 1983
• Fort Nisqually Factor's HouseNational Historic Landmark · listed 1970
• Albers Brothers Milllisted 2002
• Annobee Apartmentslisted 1999
• Auditorium Dance Hall, Thelisted 2008
• Balfour Dock Buildinglisted 2006
• Conrad F. & Annie K. Beutel Houselisted 2008
• Blue Mouse Theatrelisted 2010
• Boatman-Ainsworth Hoselisted 1982
• Bowes Buildinglisted 1979
• Browns Point Lighthouse and Keeper's Cottagelisted 1989
• Building at 712-716 Sixth Avenuelisted 1995

Every listing in Pierce County

Tacoma grew from 36,006 to 219,346 between 1890 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

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

1 chapter about Tacoma from the published histories of the county, public domain and reproduced complete.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Tacoma in 2002, burning under an acre 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:

• Allison
• Brookdale
• Excelsior
• Fern Hill
• Fife
• Hillsdale

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Tacoma: 17 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

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tacoma in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 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.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1512713. 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.