Tenino Downtown Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Tenino Downtown Historic District is two blocks long, one-half block-deep on either side of Sussex Street in Tenino, Washington. Approximately three acres in size, the district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 2004.”
Wikipedia article Tenino Downtown Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 68 National Register listings published here for Thurston County · listed in 2004 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Sussex St. SE, Tenino, 98589
When was it listed? June 2004
Category. district
Census division. Thurston South
National Register reference number. 02001616 - 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

106 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 106 fires within 5 miles of Tenino Downtown Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 310 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were 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	35
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	29
Recreation and ceremony	13
Railroad operations and maintenance	11
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	2
Fireworks	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Natural	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
9 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
9 September 1996	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MCINTOSH SOUTH
3 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
29 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
27 September 1992	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
23 September 1995	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
21 September 1998	Railroad operations and maintenance	5.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Tenino Downtown Historic District: 14 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Flagstone, Clay, Peat. 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
Army Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Bucoda Pit	Clay, Peat	Past Producer
Hercules Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Western Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Crescent Well Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Crowder Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Johnson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Maytown Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sandymere Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Scatter Creek Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Thurston County

Storms near this property

1 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tenino, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2004: 1 tornado. 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
May 2004	Tornado (F1)	Tenino	$50,000	A tornado damaged a barn, some trees, and a nearby apartment.

Every storm recorded in Thurston 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
Tenino Stone Company Quarry	0.2 miles	1983
Tenino Depot	0.4 miles	1974
Colvin House	2.5 miles	1988
Ticknor School	4.2 miles	1990
Seatco Prison Site	4.5 miles	1975
Millersylvania State Park	5.2 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 02001616 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Thurston County	All 68 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.