Kestner Homestead

Built in 1905. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Grays Harbor County · listed in 2007 · category: District · built in 1905.

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

The listing

Address. Quinalt River Valley, .5 mi. N of Quinalt River Ranger Station, along west side of Kestner Creek, Quinalt sub-distr, Port Angeles, 98526
When was it listed? July 2007
Category. district
Also known as. Olympic National Park MPS
Census division. Neilton
When was it built? 1905
National Register reference number. 07000741 - 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

13 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Kestner Homestead between 1992 and 2016, burning about 10 acres in total. 4 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
Natural	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
Recreation and ceremony	2
Smoking	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
27 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	GATTON CREEK SNAG
9 August 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	OPEN LAKE
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	SOUTH SHORE
17 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	HUCKLEBERRY
15 August 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
14 August 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Quinault Indian Nations	PILE FIRE
12 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	TOAD
12 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	CANOE

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Kestner Homestead: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Cesium, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Chamberlain Quarry	Cesium	Past Producer
	Chamberlain Quarry	Stone	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Grays Harbor 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

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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Lake Quinault Lodge	3.3 miles	1998
	Ole Mickelson Cabin	3.6 miles	1993

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000741 in Record Group 79.
Grays Harbor County	All 22 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.