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One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 2009 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
American Lake Veterans Hospital
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 45 buildingss, 3 structuress as contributing to the listing.
- Address. 9600 Veterans Dr.,SW., Tacoma, 98433
- When was it listed? May 2009
- Category. district
- Census division. Fort Lewis-DuPont
- National Register reference number. 09000218 - 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
4 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of American Lake Veterans Hospital between 1992 and 2018, burning about 5 acres in total. 1 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 | 1 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Natural | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.8 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | KETRON ISLAND |
| 20 July 1992 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 14 May 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 March 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.0 acres | Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge Complex | SOUTH NISQUALLY |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of American Lake Veterans Hospital: 15 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Limestone, Dimension. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meadow Park Pit & Mill | Limestone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Roy | Diatomite | Occurrence | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Holroyd Land Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lakeview Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Lakewood Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Steilacoom Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Steilacoom Pit & Plant | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tacoma, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Tacoma | $150,000 | A weak tornado touched down in a south Tacoma neighborhood just east of I-5. A church suffered roof and beam damage and several trees were pushed over or snapped off. There were also some downed fences. |
| October 2015 | Heavy Rain | Tacoma | $50,000 | A landslide closed southbound Schuster Parkway in Tacoma on the afternoon of Oct 10th after a burst of heavy rain moved through Pierce County. The heavy rain and wind also caused sporadic power outages and some spinouts elsewhere in Pierce County. A part of I-705 was also closed at South 11th Street due to flooding. ||Runoff from the heavy rainfall overwhelmed drainage systems near Tacoma's Stadium High School resulting water and debris running through the campus and tumbling into and flooding the football field. |
| September 2013 | Heavy Rain | Tacoma | $50,000 | Heavy rain inundated more than 60 units in a mini storage business in Tacoma.|Tacomas environmental services crews responded to 76 calls of flooding due to heavy rain. |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adjutant General's Residence | 1.3 miles | 1991 | |
 | Thornewood | 1.3 miles | 1982 |
| Lakewold | 1.5 miles | 2014 | |
| Munson, Herbert and Barbara House | 1.7 miles | 2019 | |
 | Rhodesleigh | 2.0 miles | 1983 |
 | Steilacoom Catholic Church | 2.3 miles | 1974 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 09000218 in Record Group 79. |
| Pierce County | All 215 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.