Bush House

Built in 1899. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

From the record

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Snohomish County · listed in 2017 · category: Building · built in 1899.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 308 5th St., Index, 98256
When was it listed? September 2017
Category. building
Census division. Sultan
When was it built? 1899
National Register reference number. 100001597 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

57 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Bush House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 304 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 1 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	29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Fireworks	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Debris and open burning	3
Smoking	2
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Natural	2
Other causes	1
Arson/incendiarism	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	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 2012	Natural	1.9 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	POWERLINE
4 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	LAKE SERENE
3 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
20 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	BELL
17 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Region-Department of Natural Resources	SUNSET FALLS
12 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 August 2009	Natural	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	LOWER TROUT
5 August 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	SKOOKUM TRAILHEAD

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 65 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 65 workings within 5 miles of Bush House: 26 past producers, 22 occurrences, 12 prospects, 3 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver, Silver, Gold. 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
Barclay Creek	Garnet	Occurrence
Baring Iron Deposit	Iron, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
Calumet Mine	Copper, Zinc	Prospect
Copper Belle	Copper, Gold, Silver, Tungsten	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Hematite, Magnetite
Copper Belle	Silver, Gold, Copper, Tungsten	Past Producer	1910, 1911
Ellis Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Gunn Peak Prospect	Gold, Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Bornite, Chalcopyrite
Index Bornite Prospect	Silver, Copper	Occurrence	Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite
Lake Serene Mine	Copper, Silver, Iron, Gold	Producer	Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Martin, Gail L	Copper, Tungsten	Unknown

Every working recorded in Snohomish County

Storms near this property

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Index, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 1 debris flow, 1 flood. 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 2021	Flood	Index	$329,000	The Snohomish, Skykomish, and Stillaguamish Rivers exceeded flood stage. Urban and small stream flooding also occurred. Heavy rain caused some landslides.
January 2014	Debris Flow	Index	$2,000	Scores of residents near Index remained without power and stranded by a massive landslide that blocks the access road to their homes and prevents emergency crews from reaching the area in Snohomish County.

Every storm recorded in Snohomish 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

1 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
	Red Men Hall	0.1 miles	1973

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 100001597 in Record Group 79.
Snohomish County	All 52 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.