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One of 32 National Register listings published here for Walla Walla County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Waitsburg High School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 421 Coopei St., Waitsburg, 99361
- When was it listed? April 2001
- Category. building
- Census division. Waitsburg
- National Register reference number. 01000431 - 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
3 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 3 fires within 5 miles of Waitsburg High School between 1995 and 2017, burning about 1,452 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 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 August 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1,350 acres | Washington State Fire Marshal's Office | WHETSTONE RD |
| 13 July 1995 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | 100 acres | Spokane District | SMITH CYN |
| 27 May 2017 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LEWIS AND CLARK |
Mines and quarries near this property
6 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Waitsburg High School: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mills Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Hale Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Mays Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Waitsburg Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
9 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waitsburg, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 4 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud, 1 flash flood. 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 2000 | Heavy Rain | Waitsburg | $90,000 | Substantial rains over the previous day, coupled with an early morning thunderstorm that dumped over one-half inch of rain in 45 minutes, lead to widespread agricultural runoff that washed mud over several local roads. Rushing waters stripped several layers of gravel from Miller Road, located just west of Waitsburg. Several local gravel roads needed to be completely regraded. |
| March 2026 | Flood | Waitsburg | - | The Walla Walla County dispatch reported flooding along the Touchet River in the town of Waitsburg the morning of the 14th. The dispatch center relayed that a levee near the Preston Ave bridge had been breached, leading to flooding of properties along the Touchet River. Several roads in the Waitsburg area were also closed, including US Highway 12, due to water over the roadway. |
| June 2012 | Hail | Waitsburg | - | Hail up to half dollar size accompanied by 60 mph winds wind shredded window screens. |
| April 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Waitsburg | - | Tree limbs on power lines knocked power out. |
| August 2019 | Hail | Waitsburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2019 | Hail | Waitsburg | - | no account filed |
| August 2008 | Hail | Waitsburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Flash Flood | Waitsburg | - | no account filed |
| April 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Waitsburg | - | no account filed |
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
3 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Preston Hall | 0.1 miles | 1993 |
 | William Perry Bruce House | 0.2 miles | 1975 |
| Waitsburg Historic District | 0.3 miles | 1978 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 01000431 in Record Group 79. |
| Walla Walla County | All 32 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.
- 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.