Peter Roose Homestead

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Peter Roose Homestead is a historic homestead in the U.S. state of Washington that was settled by Peter Roose, an immigrant from Bollnäs, Sweden, in 1907. Located in Olympic National Park, the site was added as a historic district to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.”
Wikipedia article Peter Roose Homestead, 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

Listed as. Roose, Peter, Homestead - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Along Indian Village Trail;approx. 1.5 mi. N of trailhead, Port Angeles, 98326
When was it listed? July 2007
Category. district
Also known as. Olympic National Park MPS
Census division. Clallam Bay-Neah Bay
National Register reference number. 07000723 - 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

16 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Peter Roose Homestead between 1993 and 2019, burning about 12 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony	13
Debris and open burning	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
7 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	KRAUSE
7 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	BURSEN
25 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	ROOT
13 September 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	ERICKSON BAY
29 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	OZETTE RIV
26 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	ERICSON BA
2 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	SAND POINT
17 August 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Park	WEDDING

Every fire recorded in Clallam County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 12 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 12 workings within 5 miles of Peter Roose Homestead: 6 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Platinum, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Platinum, Titanium, Platinum, Iron. 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
Ozette Beach Placer	Gold, Platinum, PGE	Occurrence	Beach Placer
Yellow Banks Placer	Gold, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Platinum	Producer	1900, 1939
Yellow Banks Placer	Gold, Titanium, Platinum, Iron	Past Producer
Ozette Beach Placer	Gold, Platinum	Past Producer	Beach Placer
Ozette Beach Placer	Gold, Platinum	Past Producer
Little Wink Placer	Gold	Occurrence
Little Wink Placer	Gold	Past Producer
Main and Bartnes Placer	Gold	Prospect
Morgan Placer	Gold	Occurrence
Morgan Placer	Gold	Prospect

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000723 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.