Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.
From the record
“The Boundary Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam across the Pend Oreille River, located in the U.S. state of Washington, in the northeast corner of the state. Completed in 1967 for the conventional generation of hydroelectricity, the dam is operated by Seattle City Light and generates a significant portion of the City of Seattle's energy portfolio.”
Wikipedia article Boundary Dam, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 9 National Register listings published here for Pend Oreille County · listed in 2018 · category: District.
National Register reference number. 100002394 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
22 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Boundary Hydroelectric Project
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 203 acres in total. 13 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
Natural
13
Recreation and ceremony
3
Power generation/transmission/distribution
2
Arson/incendiarism
1
Equipment and vehicle use
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Debris and open burning
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
90 workings within 5 miles of Boundary Hydroelectric Project: 38 prospects, 30 occurrences, 14 past producers, 5 producers.
5 still produce. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Gold, Zinc, Lead. 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
Metaline, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2009 and 2018: 5 debris flow, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail.
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.
A rock slide blocked the north bound lane on State Route 31 at milepost 8. Short delays were reported as traffic in both directions alternated the use of the south bound lane.
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.
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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