Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
From the record
“The Western Flyer is a fishing boat, most known for its use by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts in their 1940 expedition to the Gulf of California, the notes from which culminated in their 1941 book Sea of Cortez, later reworked by Steinbeck into The Log from the Sea of Cortez (1951). According to Kevin Bailey, "the most famous fishing vessel ever to have sailed", the 77-foot (23 m) Western Flyer was restored in Port Townsend, Washington.”
Wikipedia article Western Flyer (boat), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 75 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 2017 · category: Structure.
National Register reference number. 100000990 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
27 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 27 fires within 5 miles of F/V WESTERN FLYER (purse seiner)
between 1992 and 2011, burning about 39 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Debris and open burning
7
Recreation and ceremony
6
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Arson/incendiarism
4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
2
Natural
1
Fireworks
1
Other causes
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 1998
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
7 September 1992
Arson/incendiarism
2.1 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
5 September 2011
Misuse of fire by a minor
20 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
BECKETT PT
27 September 1998
Debris and open burning
1.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
26 September 2003
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
17 September 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
MALAMUTE LANE
13 September 1992
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
12 September 1997
Natural
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
8 workings within 5 miles of F/V WESTERN FLYER (purse seiner): 8 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Port Townsend, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 lightning.
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.
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.
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.
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