Opportunity Township Hall

Built in 1912. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

One of 159 National Register listings published here for Spokane County · listed in 2005 · category: Building · built in 1912.

Sources: 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. 12114 E. Sprague Ave., Spokane Valley, 99206
When was it listed? March 2005
Category. building
Census division. Spokane
When was it built? 1912
National Register reference number. 05000190 - 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

345 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 345 fires within 5 miles of Opportunity Township Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,381 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 44 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	123
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	63
Arson/incendiarism	44
Misuse of fire by a minor	33
Debris and open burning	26
Natural	13
Fireworks	12
Smoking	12
Equipment and vehicle use	9
Railroad operations and maintenance	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Other causes	3

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 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	VALLEY MAZE
9 September 2001	Arson/incendiarism	14 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 September 2014	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SALTESE
8 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 September 2003	Misuse of fire by a minor	6.9 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MIRABEAU RIVER

Every fire recorded in Spokane County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 37 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 37 workings within 5 miles of Opportunity Township Hall: 32 past producers, 3 producers, 2 occurrences. 3 still produce. 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Empire Granite Quarry	Granite, Silica, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Sommer Pit	Fire Clay (Refractory)	Past Producer
Sumers Clay Pit	Kaolin	Past Producer
Dishman	Silica	Occurrence
H. Seidel Clay Co.	Clay	Past Producer
Shelley Lake	Clay	Past Producer
Spokane Silica Sand Deposit	Silica	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Havana and 10th Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Spokane 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
West Valley High School	2.6 miles	1991
Royal Riblet House	2.8 miles	1979
Rosebush House	2.9 miles	2000
Millwood Historic District	2.9 miles	2001
Hutton Settlement	3.2 miles	1976
Hutton Settlement District (Boundary Increase)	3.2 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000190 in Record Group 79.
Spokane County	All 159 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.