Wilkeson Arch

Built in 1925 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

From the record

“Wilkeson Arch is a monumental gateway structure at the west entrance to Wilkeson, Washington. The stone and timber structure was built in 1925 by the Wilkeson Booster Club, at a cost of $2000.”
Wikipedia article Wilkeson Arch, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 2000 · category: Structure · built in 1925, National Park Service rustic.

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 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. WA 165, Church St. and Brierhill Blvd., Wilkeson, 98396
When was it listed? August 2000
Category. structure
Census division. Buckley
When was it built? 1925
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 00000973 - 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

63 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 63 fires within 5 miles of Wilkeson Arch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 65 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	16
Debris and open burning	11
Other causes	4
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Fireworks	3
Natural	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

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

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	156TH SREET
7 September 2017	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SOUTH PRAIRIE CREEK
5 September 1997	Natural	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 September 2007	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
24 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 September 1994	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
18 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
10 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	PATTERSON

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Wilkeson Arch: 15 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Walker Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Burlington Northern Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Carbon Ridge Blowdown	Stone	Past Producer
Clearwest-Westfork Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Road 0602 Pit 1818	Stone	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Holy Trinity Orthodox Church	0.3 miles	1989
Wilkeson Community House	0.5 miles	2013
Wilkeson School	0.7 miles	1976
Coke Ovens	0.8 miles	1974
Walker Cut Stone Company	1.0 miles	1978
William Bisson House	3.0 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 00000973 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pierce County	All 215 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.