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Photograph of Old Auburn Post Office
Photograph by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Auburn Post Office

Built in 1937. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“The former Auburn Post Office building is located at 20 Auburn Avenue NE at First Street NE in Auburn, Washington. This is one block north Main Street, the historic business and commercial center.”

Wikipedia article Auburn Post Office, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 2000 · category: Building · built in 1937.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 20 Auburn Ave. NE, Aburn, 98002
  • When was it listed? April 2000
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Historic US Post Offices in Washington MPS
  • Census division. Federal Way-Auburn
  • When was it built? 1937
  • National Register reference number. 00000407 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

1 since 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Auburn Post Office in 2012, burning under an acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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.

Reported cause Fires
Arson/incendiarism1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 September 2012Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersG.R.C.C.

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Auburn Post Office: 17 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
American ConcreteSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Auburn Pit & PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Bremmeyer PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Heidinger PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kent Highlands PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Kent PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Main PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Main PlantSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer

Every working recorded in King County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Auburn Public Libraryunder 500 feet1982
Masonic Temple-Auburn0.1 miles2015
Oscar Blomeen House0.2 miles1991
Aaron Neely Sr. Mansion2.4 miles1974
Mary Olson Farm2.8 miles2001
Jovita Land Company Model Home-Corbett House3.2 miles2004

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 00000407 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
King CountyAll 324 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • 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.