Sacajawea State Park

Built in 1931. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“Sacajawea State Park is a public recreation area and historical preserve in the city of Pasco, Washington, covering 267 acres (108 ha) at the confluence of the Snake and Columbia rivers where the Lewis and Clark Expedition camped on October 16, 1805. The state park bears the name of the Shoshone woman Sacagawea, who was an active member of the expedition married to expedition member Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian interpreter and explorer.”
Wikipedia article Sacajawea State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 8 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 2007 · category: District · built in 1931.

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

The listing

Address. 2503 Sacajawea Park Rd., Pasco, 99301
When was it listed? April 2007
Category. district
Census division. Pasco
When was it built? 1931
National Register reference number. 07000364 - 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

101 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 101 fires within 5 miles of Sacajawea State Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 554 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 15 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	30
Debris and open burning	23
Arson/incendiarism	15
Equipment and vehicle use	10
Recreation and ceremony	9
Fireworks	5
Natural	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Firearms and explosives use	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 1994	Debris and open burning	4.0 acres	McNary National Wildlife Refuge	CASEY POND
4 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	McNary National Wildlife Refuge	2ND ST.
19 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	5.0 acres	McNary National Wildlife Refuge	PENINSULA
17 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	100 acres	McNary National Wildlife Refuge	PENINSULA
7 August 2007	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	McNary National Wildlife Refuge	HUMORIST RD
6 August 2017	Natural	13 acres	McNary National Wildlife Refuge	WALLULA LAKE
6 August 2011	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	McNary National Wildlife Refuge	FLAT TOP
5 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	McNary National Wildlife Refuge	LIGHTHUMOR

Every fire recorded in Franklin County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 19 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 19 workings within 5 miles of Sacajawea State Park: 13 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone. 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
Humorist Pit	Stone	Past Producer
D.O.E. Pit No. 1	Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Gravel Pit	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Cherry Lane Quarry	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Finley Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Matheson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Matheson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Pasco Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Putnam Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sanders and Young Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Franklin County

Storms near this property

11 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pasco, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1999 and 2020: 7 thunderstorm wind, 2 lightning, 1 dust devil, 1 hail. The reports record 4 injuries. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 2020	Lightning	Pasco	4 hurt, $12,000	Cattle company near Pasco lost 6 registered Charolais cattle during a lightning storm.
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Pasco	$770,000	Strong wind gusts from a thunderstorm flipped two small airplanes at the Tri-Cities airport in Pasco. Five feeding bunks at DeVries Dairy were also destroyed. The winds knocked out power to thousands of residents in the county, and toppled many trees.
June 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Pasco	$5,000	Trees down and shingles taken from roofs.
June 2008	Lightning	Pasco	$5,000	Lightning struck radio tower and knocked station off air.
August 2020	Thunderstorm Wind	Pasco	-	Measured at mesonet station HPASC.
July 2002	Hail	Pasco	-	Hail from this storm severely damaged thousands of acres of crops in Pasco. Some of the hardest hit crops were tomatoes, cucumbers, corn, green beans, and peppers.
May 1999	Dust Devil	Pasco	-	A dust devil tore shingles and tarpaper off the roof of the Physician's Medical Center in Pasco.
April 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Pasco	-	no account filed
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Pasco	-	no account filed
October 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Pasco	-	no account filed
July 2002	Thunderstorm Wind	Pasco	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Franklin 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

5 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
Morningstar Baptist Church	2.5 miles	2022
Kurtzman Park Mini Station	2.8 miles	2022
Pasco Carnegie Library	3.4 miles	1982
Franklin County Courthouse	3.7 miles	1978
James Moore House	5.0 miles	1979

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000364 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Franklin County	All 8 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.