Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul and Pacific Railroad: South Cle Elum Yard
Built in 1909. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
From the record
“Paul and Pacific Railroad South Cle Elum Rail Yard located in South Cle Elum, Washington, was a division point on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad's Coast Division.”
Wikipedia article South Cle Elum Yard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kittitas County · listed in 2003 · category: District · built in 1909, by Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad.
Architect. Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
National Register reference number.03000305- 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
139 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 139 fires within 5 miles of Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul and Pacific Railroad: South Cle Elum Yard
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 169 acres in total. 13 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
Recreation and ceremony
43
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
31
Debris and open burning
23
Natural
13
Equipment and vehicle use
12
Smoking
4
Fireworks
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Other causes
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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 2012
Natural
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
BUFFALO SPRINGS
9 September 2007
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
WINCHESTER
8 September 2003
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest
SHARON OSBORN
7 September 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
LANIGAN POWERLINE
7 September 1992
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
6 September 1994
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
6 September 1993
Fireworks
1.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
5 September 2012
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
28 workings within 5 miles of Milwaukee Chicago St. Paul and Pacific Railroad: South Cle Elum Yard: 14 past producers, 7 prospects, 5 occurrences, 2 producers.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Nickel, Chromium. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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
4 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.
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.
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