Grace Evangelical Church of Vader

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“Grace Evangelical Church of Vader, also known as Grace United Methodist Church of Vader, is a historic Methodist church in Vader, Washington. Added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2003, the church is one of two NRHP-listed sites in the city, along with the Ben Olsen House.”
Wikipedia article Grace Evangelical Church of Vader, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Lewis County · listed in 2003 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 618 D St., Vader, 98593
When was it listed? March 2003
Category. building
Census division. Toledo-Vader
National Register reference number. 03000162 - 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

50 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Grace Evangelical Church of Vader between 1993 and 2020, burning about 46 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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	19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Recreation and ceremony	7
Arson/incendiarism	3
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	NIKULA
30 September 1993	Fireworks	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 September 2014	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	COWLITZ BLACKBERRY
3 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
23 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
2 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
13 September 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BIG HIDDEN STUMP
12 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 16 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Grace Evangelical Church of Vader: 13 past producers, 3 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay, Silica. 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
Buswell	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Occurrence
Stillwater Creek	Silica	Occurrence
Cowlitz River	Clay	Occurrence
Harbor Rock-Rip 9405	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Open Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Vader	Clay	Past Producer
Cowlitz Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Horsley Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Janisch Gravel Co. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Miller Bar	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis 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

1 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
	Ben Olsen House	0.4 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03000162 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lewis County	All 33 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.