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Photograph of Wenatchee Fire Station No. 1
Photograph by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Wenatchee Fire Station #1

Built in 1929 (Beaux-Arts). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Wenatchee Fire Station No. 1 is a historic fire station in Wenatchee, Washington. It was built in 1929 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 as Wenatchee Fire Station #1.”

Wikipedia article Wenatchee Fire Station No. 1, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 46 National Register listings published here for Chelan County · listed in 2004 · category: Building · built in 1929, Beaux-Arts.

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. 136 S. Chelan Ave., Wenatchee, 98801
  • When was it listed? September 2004
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Wenatchee
  • When was it built? 1929
  • Architectural style. Beaux-Arts
  • National Register reference number. 04000953 - 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

21 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Wenatchee Fire Station #1 between 1992 and 2020, burning about 4,111 acres in total. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined6
Natural4
Debris and open burning4
Fireworks3
Recreation and ceremony1
Firearms and explosives use1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Smoking1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undetermined54 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHORSE LAKE ROAD
4 September 2016Smoking20 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHORSE LAKE
4 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undetermined10 acresOkanogan-Wenatchee National ForestNUMBER TWO CANYON
18 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSpokane DistrictEAST VIEW
1 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined2,610 acresSpokane DistrictCRYSTAL
26 August 2003Fireworks1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 August 2004Equipment and vehicle use50 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCANYON VIEW
6 July 2014Fireworks180 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSKYLINE

Every fire recorded in Chelan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 57 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 57 workings within 5 miles of Wenatchee Fire Station #1: 28 past producers, 15 occurrences, 8 prospects, 3 producers. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silica, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
(Facility) Wenatchee Aluminum SmelterAluminum, Contained or MetalPlant
Cannon MineSilver, Gold, Copper, Antimony, Lead, ArsenicProducerAcanthite, Boulangerite, Chalcopyrite, Electrum, Galena, Gold, Hessite, Marcasite, Naumannite, Pyrargyrite, Silver, Sphalerite, Stibnite
LovittGold, Silver, Copper, Antimony, Zinc, Arsenic, LeadPast Producer1885, 1894
Squaw SaddleMercuryOccurrenceCinnabar
Dry GulchPerliteOccurrence
Rooster CombPerliteOccurrence
Sampson PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Shotwell RoadStone, Crushed/BrokenOccurrence
Squaw Saddle No. 1Gypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence
Squaw Saddle No. 2Aluminum, Gypsum-AnhydriteOccurrence

Every working recorded in Chelan County

Storms near this property

21 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Wenatchee, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 2003 and 2024: 10 flash flood, 3 lightning, 3 debris flow, 2 heavy rain. The reports record 1 injury. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2006LightningWenatchee1 hurtno account filed
June 2022Flash FloodWest Wenatchee$80,000Water and mud going into a couple residences. Several streets in area impacted from urban flooding.
August 2019Flash FloodSouth Wenatchee$50,000Heavy rain from a thunderstorm eroded a culvert and hillside above the Squilchuck Mobile Home Park resulting in three mobile homes being buried up to their roof lines with mud and rocks. Residents in 16 other nearby homes were advised to evacuate until the hillside stabilized.
August 2019Flash FloodSouth Wenatchee$50,000Numerous streets in the southern portion of Wenatchee were reported as flooded and residents were advised to avoid travel in the area. Mud and debris flows in the Squilchuck, Pritcher and Halverson Canyons flowed down these canyons and into the city. In addition heavy rain in the city of Wenatchee backed up storm drains and sewers and contributed to the flooding.
September 2013Flash FloodWest Wenatchee$43,430Flash flooding from Number 2 Canyon blocked a portion of Number 2 Canyon Road above milepost 3. Flood waters reached as far as western Wenatchee. Flood waters also damaged homes and property to private residences in the Canyon. Damage costs were estimated.
August 2013Debris FlowWest Wenatchee$30,000Heavy rain across the 2012 Peavine Canyon Burn Scar resulted in a large debris flow down Number One Canyon Road into southwestern portions of Wenatchee. Upwards of eight inches of mud filled yards, basements, and garages of homes along the road. Witnesses described a wall of water, mud, rocks, branches, and tree limbs coming down Number One Canyon Road with the sound of rocks scraping the road. The debris flow reached the intersection of Lars Lane and Number One Canyon Road. There were no injuries.
August 2013Debris FlowWest Wenatchee$30,000Heavy rainfall led to a debris flow across Number Two Canyon Road roughly from mile post three to the end of the pavement around 0000 PST. The slide left half to one foot of mud and debris, including rocks, over the roadway rendering the road impassible. The Number One Canyon Near Wenatchee Rain Gauge (NOOW1) received 0.29 of rainfall over a span of 29 minutes. Runoff incised ditches up to four feet in diameter exposing utilities.
March 2016Debris FlowWest Wenatchee$15,000The Wenatchee World Newspaper reported that a drainage culvert had plugged with debris during heavy rain over the weekend and caused water and debris to spill out from it and flood yards and streets in the Wenatchee Neighborhood on the 1600 block of Wooland Drive, which is off Pershing Street near Springwater Avenue in Wenatchee, WA.
June 2022Flash FloodWest Wenatchee$10,000A mudslide on Number 1 Canyon Road was closed for several hours.
June 2022Flash FloodWest Wenatchee$10,000Mudslide on Maple Street with the road temporarily impassable.
June 2022Flash FloodWest Wenatchee$10,000Number 2 Canyon Rd temporarily flooded just west of Wenatchee.
June 2006LightningWenatchee$5,000no account filed
June 2019Flash FloodWest Wenatchee$2,500Number 2 Canyon Road was cut by mud and debris carried by a Flash Flood . The road was closed for a few hours while road crews removed the debris.
August 2024Thunderstorm WindWest Wenatchee$2,000Chelan PUD reported 795 customers from a downed tree on a powerline.
May 2006LightningWenatchee$2,000no account filed
August 2024Flash FloodWest Wenatchee$500Chelan County dispatch office reported water flowing out of manhole covers and flooding streets, including at the corner of Maple and Northwestern Avenue. Report on Facebook stated water was up to bumpers of vehicles.
June 2022Thunderstorm WindWest Wenatchee$500Observer reported 3 inch trees limbs and power poles were broken via Mping.
June 2013Flash FloodWest Wenatchee-In the city of Wenatchee, Miller, Western, Springwater, and McKittrick roads experienced flooding. Manhole covers were blown off along Miller Street between Millerdale Avenue and Springwater Avenue. Sections of these roads were closed for roughly one hour as one to two feet of water filled some intersections. Mud and water could be seen flowing across State Route 28 at the junction of US2 and US97 via a DOT camera on the northern sections of Wenatchee. The water and mud was estimated to be less then a foot deep. A CoCoRahs report from one mile west southwest of Wenatchee stated the lower level of their outbuilding was flooded however it is unknown if there was any damage.
July 2011Heavy RainWenatchee-Significant rainfall resulted in cherry damage to several orchards from the Wenatchee area, northward toward Pateros. It was reported that up to approximately fifteen percent or more of the cherry orchards were damaged. The Skeena variety of cherries was most damaged as the rainfall resulted in severe cracking of fruit. The ASOS at the Wenatchee Airport reported 0.30 inches of rainfall between 0600PST and 1200PST. Damage estimations were based on a loss of 150 tons of cherries combined with the additional costs of renting roughly a dozen helicopters used to dry the orchards. One helicopter pilot died when the low-flying aircraft clipped a power-line and crashed.
June 2003Heavy RainWenatchee-During the late afternoon of June 9th a thunderstorm dumped up to 1/3 of an inch of rain in a short period of time. Minor urban flooding of storm drains and culverts resulted. Highway 2 between Wenatchee and Cashmere was closed briefly due to water ponding over all four lanes of the road.
June 2009Dust DevilWest Wenatchee-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Chelan 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
U.S. Post Office and Annexunder 500 feet1977
Burke-Hill Apartmentsunder 500 feet2021
Wenatchee Carnegie Library0.2 miles1982
Downtown Wenatchee Historic District0.3 miles2008
Brown's First Addition Historic District0.8 miles2021
Columbia River Bridge0.8 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04000953 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Chelan CountyAll 46 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.