Millersylvania State Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

From the record

“Millersylvania State Park is a public recreation area located on Deep Lake eight miles (13 km) south of Olympia, Washington. The state park's 903 acres (365 ha) include old-growth cedar and fir trees as well as 3,300 feet (1,000 m) of freshwater shoreline.”
Wikipedia article Millersylvania State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 68 National Register listings published here for Thurston County · listed in 2009 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 12245 Tilley Rd., Olympia, 98512
When was it listed? September 2009
Category. district
Census division. Olympia West
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 09000732 - 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

154 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 154 fires within 5 miles of Millersylvania State Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 280 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	45
Debris and open burning	45
Recreation and ceremony	16
Misuse of fire by a minor	9
Equipment and vehicle use	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	8
Arson/incendiarism	8
Fireworks	6
Natural	4
Smoking	3
Other causes	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
9 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WEBSTER
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MAYTOWN REST STOP
5 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	830
3 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
29 September 1999	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
28 September 2002	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Millersylvania State Park: 13 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Army Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Capital Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Case Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Crescent Well Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Deschutes Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Jones Road Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Little Rock Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Maytown Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Tumwater Sand & Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Thurston County

Storms near this property

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olympia, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2006: 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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
January 2006	Heavy Rain	Olympia	$30,000	no account filed
May 2001	Funnel Cloud	Olympia	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Thurston 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
Union Cemetery-Pioneer Calvary Cemetery	5.2 miles	1997
Tenino Downtown Historic District	5.2 miles	2004
Tenino Depot	5.3 miles	1974
Tenino Stone Company Quarry	5.4 miles	1983
Black Lake School	6.2 miles	1990
Colvin House	6.2 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 09000732 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Thurston County	All 68 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.