Photograph of Cama Beach Historical State Park — Photograph by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Cama Beach Resort

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“Cama Beach Historical State Park is a public recreation area facing Saratoga Passage on the southwest shore of Camano Island in Island County, Washington. The state park preserves the site of a renovated, modernized 1930s-era auto court and fishing resort.”
Wikipedia article Cama Beach State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Island County · listed in 2001 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 1880 SW Camano Dr., Camano Island, 98282
When was it listed? May 2001
Category. district
Census division. Camano Island
National Register reference number. 01000505 - 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Cama Beach Resort between 1992 and 2020, burning about 24 acres 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
Debris and open burning	27
Recreation and ceremony	12
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Fireworks	5
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	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
6 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
23 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
2 September 1996	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
16 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 August 1994	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
30 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Island County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cama Beach Resort: 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: REE, 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
	Christie Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Greenbank Sand & Gravel	REE	Producer

Every working recorded in Island 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Kristoferson Dairy	5.8 miles	2012
	Utsalady Ladies Aid Building	7.7 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000505 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Island County	All 15 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.