BlockFrom the record
One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 2000 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Shawnee House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 11608 SW Shawnee Rd., Vashon, 98070
- When was it listed? November 2000
- Category. building
- Census division. Vashon Island
- National Register reference number. 00001449 - 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 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Shawnee House in 2001, 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.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 August 2001 | Recreation and ceremony | 40 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
7 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 7 workings within 5 miles of Shawnee House: 4 past producers, 3 producers. 3 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 | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crescent Valley Pit and Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ellisport Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Maury Island Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Maury Island Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Maury Island Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Pohl Pit - Div. 10 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Tjomsland Pit-Div 10 | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 milesOther 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 | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dockton Hotel | 1.3 miles | 1983 | |
 | Mukai Cold Process Fruit Barrelling Plant | 4.3 miles | 1994 |
 | Vashon Hardware Store | 4.6 miles | 2000 |
 | Point Robinson Light Station | 5.1 miles | 2004 |
 | Helmer and Selma Steen House | 5.1 miles | 2000 |
 | Colvos Store | 5.8 miles | 2000 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 00001449 in Record Group 79. |
| King County | All 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.