Tharald Homestead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

From the record

One of 21 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 2002 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Hoffman Cove Rd., Shaw Island, 98286
When was it listed? January 2002
Category. district
Census division. Lopez
National Register reference number. 01001473 - 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

39 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 39 fires within 5 miles of Tharald Homestead between 1992 and 2019, burning about 17 acres in total. 2 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
Fireworks	10
Debris and open burning	10
Recreation and ceremony	7
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Natural	2
Smoking	1
Other causes	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
8 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	JACKSON
6 September 2019	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DEER HARBOR
6 September 2012	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TERRACE
12 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BEACHEM
6 August 2002	Fireworks	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 August 1998	Fireworks	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 August 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Tharald Homestead: 12 past producers, 6 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Feldspar. 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
Deer Harbor Feldspar Deposit	Feldspar	Occurrence
Humphrey Head Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Biendle Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Caldwell Point Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Cliff Island Deposit	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Crane Island Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Erismann Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Eureka Deposit	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Four Winds Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Friday Harbor Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in San Juan 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
Little Red Schoolhouse	0.8 miles	1973
Orcas Hotel	2.7 miles	1982
San Juan County Courthouse	3.0 miles	1984
Port Stanley School	4.8 miles	1994
American and English Camps, San Juan Island	5.6 miles	1966
San Juan Island National Historic Site	6.9 miles	1966

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01001473 in Record Group 79.
San Juan County	All 21 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.