Built in 1912. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
From the record
“The Trafton Elementary School in Arlington, Washington, United States was founded in 1888, rebuilt after a fire in 1912, and is listed on the Washington State Heritage Register and the National Register of Historic Places. In February 2010, the Arlington School District was considering closing the school after the current school year.”
Wikipedia article Trafton School, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 52 National Register listings published here for Snohomish County · listed in 2006 · category: Building · built in 1912.
Also known as. Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
Census division. Arlington
When was it built? 1912
National Register reference number.06000730- 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
28 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Trafton School
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 160 acres in total. 2 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
Debris and open burning
13
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6
Smoking
2
Misuse of fire by a minor
2
Natural
2
Recreation and ceremony
2
Equipment and vehicle use
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
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
HEIGHTS RD
4 September 2015
Natural
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
HEMLOCK
19 September 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
GRANDVIEW CURVE
18 September 1997
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
14 September 2017
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
6.9 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
99TH DRIVE
14 September 1998
Smoking
3.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
12 September 1993
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
11 September 2014
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
3.4 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
25 workings within 5 miles of Trafton School: 14 past producers, 5 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 prospects.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Iron, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Manganese. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Arlington, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2005: 1 lightning, 1 tornado.
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.
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
2 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.
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.
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