Mary Olson Farm

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 2001 · category: Building.

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

The listing

Listed as. Olson, Mary, Farm - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 28728 Green River Rd. S., Kent, 98030
When was it listed? October 2001
Category. building
Census division. Seattle
National Register reference number. 01001080 - 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 Mary Olson Farm 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/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
2 September 2012	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	G.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 Mary Olson Farm: 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
American Concrete	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Bremmeyer 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
Kent Highlands Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Kent Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Main Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Main Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in King County

Storms near this property

1 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kent, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 lightning. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
July 1997	Lightning	Kent	2 hurt	Two people, a 30 year old woman and a 24 year old man, suffered minor injuries after being struck by lightning. Both were indirect hits, with one of the strikes travelling through a chain link fence before zapping the woman.

Every storm 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Oscar Blomeen House	2.6 miles	1991
Auburn Public Library	2.7 miles	1982
Auburn Post Office	2.8 miles	2000
Masonic Temple-Auburn	2.8 miles	2015
Erick Gustave Sanders Mansion	2.9 miles	1986
Aaron Neely Sr. Mansion	3.4 miles	1974

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001080 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.
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.