Thorp Grade School

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kittitas County · listed in 2009 · category: Site.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 10831 N. Thorp Hwy., Thorp, 98946
When was it listed? July 2009
Category. site
Also known as. Rural Public Schools of Washington State MPS
Census division. Manastash Ridge
National Register reference number. 09000541 - 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

30 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Thorp Grade School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 960 acres in total. 5 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	15
Recreation and ceremony	8
Natural	5
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	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 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BLOOM PLACE
6 September 2016	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	167 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HAYWARD FIRING RANGE
5 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	5.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SWITCH BACK
3 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
16 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	ROBINSON CANYON
15 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HAYWARD SHOOTING RANGE
28 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	THORP
14 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	800

Every fire recorded in Kittitas County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Thorp Grade School: 12 past producers, 3 occurrences, 2 prospects. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Iron, Chromium, Nickel. 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
Adams Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Negro Creek Iron	Iron, Chromium, Nickel	Occurrence	Residual
Unnamed Pit	Gemstone	Past Producer
Magpie Canyon	Gold	Prospect
Magpie Canyon Placer	Gold	Prospect
Magpie Canyon Prospect	Gold	Occurrence
Perry Placer	Gold	Past Producer
Perry Placer	Gold	Past Producer
Yakima River Placer	Gold	Occurrence
Desmond Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kittitas 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
Thorp Mill	0.4 miles	1977
Springfield Farm	5.9 miles	1977
Ramsay House	6.9 miles	1986
Albert Nelson Farmstead	7.5 miles	1982
Northern Pacific Railway Passenger Depot	7.7 miles	1991
First Railroad Addition Historic District	7.8 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000541 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kittitas County	All 23 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.