Olympic National Park Headquarters Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Olympic National Park Headquarters Historic District overlooks Port Angeles, Washington from Peabody Heights, consisting of 6 contributing buildings built in 1940-44, 8 contributing structures and 17 non-contributing properties that act as the administrative headquarters for Olympic National Park. The contributing structures were built using locally obtained native materials in a late interpretation of the National Park Service Rustic style.”
Wikipedia article Olympic National Park Headquarters Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clallam County · listed in 2007 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 600 E. Park Ave., Port Angeles, 98362
When was it listed? July 2007
Category. district
Also known as. Olympic National Park MPS
Census division. Port Angeles
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. National Park Service
National Register reference number. 07000720 - 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

64 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Olympic National Park Headquarters Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 453 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 5 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	22
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Debris and open burning	8
Arson/incendiarism	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	4
Natural	3
Fireworks	3
Smoking	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Park	LAKE CK.
7 September 2003	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
30 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	PARKWAY
19 September 1992	Fireworks	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	FREDRICKSON
1 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	POWERLINE FIRE
7 August 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LITTLE RIVER RD FIRE
7 August 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Olympic National Park	MT PLEASANT

Every fire recorded in Clallam County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Olympic National Park Headquarters Historic District: 25 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, 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	Recorded
Lady Norma	Manganese	Unknown	1956
Port Angeles Quarry	Flagstone	Past Producer
Shore Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Morse Creek Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Port Angeles	Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Pyrite
Port Angeles	Gold, Silver	Prospect
Rains Pit	Stone	Past Producer
Old Horseman Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Aldwell Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Baublits Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Clallam 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
Masonic Temple	0.8 miles	1989
Joseph Paris House	1.0 miles	1987
Clallam County Courthouse	1.0 miles	1987
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church	1.0 miles	1987
Port Angeles Carnegie Library	1.1 miles	2011
Naval Lodge Elks Building	1.2 miles	1986

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000720 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clallam County	All 43 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.