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Scout Lodge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

From the record

“The Scout Lodge, also known as the Troop 373 and 7373 Scout Lodge, is located in Chehalis, Washington in the Hillside Historic District. Constructed by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) beginning in 1937, the lodge was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2004.”

Wikipedia article Scout Lodge (Chehalis, Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Lewis County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 278 SE Adams Ave., Chehalis, 98532
  • When was it listed? September 2004
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Centralia-Chehalis
  • National Register reference number. 04001007 - 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

62 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 62 fires within 5 miles of Scout Lodge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 119 acres in total. 2 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 burning22
Recreation and ceremony11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined11
Smoking4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Fireworks2
Arson/incendiarism2
Natural2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes2
Railroad operations and maintenance1

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 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
8 September 1998Recreation and ceremony2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
29 September 2016Debris and open burning1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersB & D
14 September 2014Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBROCKWAY
13 September 2000Debris and open burning3.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
11 September 2016Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPROFFITT RD
1 September 2012Smokingunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSPINDLE WOOD

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Scout Lodge: 12 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Clay. 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
LundSilicaOccurrence
Unnamed PitClayPast Producer
Borrow PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Gillingham PitStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bernobich PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Fate PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Hanaford PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Shorey PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Sunbird PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this property

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chehalis, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 lightning. 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
September 2013LightningChehalis1 hurtA 59 year old motorcycle driver was injured when he was struck by lightning while driving on Interstate-5.

Every storm 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

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
Hillside Historic District0.1 miles1996
Cascade School0.3 miles2026
US Post Office-Chehalis Main0.3 miles1991
St. Helens Hotel0.4 miles1991
Lewis County Courthouse0.4 miles2014
O. B. McFadden House0.4 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 04001007 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lewis CountyAll 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.
  • 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.