Schafer State Park

Built in 1924 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

From the record

“Schafer State Park is a public recreation area along the Satsop River located midway between Olympia and Aberdeen in the Satsop Hills of Mason County, Washington. The 122-acre (49 ha) state park offers camping, two miles of hiking trails, fishing, swimming, birdwatching, interpretive activities, wildlife viewing, and horseshoes.”
Wikipedia article Schafer State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Mason County · listed in 2010 · category: District · built in 1924, National Park Service rustic.

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

The listing

Address. 1365 W Schafer Park Rd, Elma, 98541
When was it listed? May 2010
Category. district
Census division. West Mason
When was it built? 1924
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 10000255 - 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

42 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 42 fires within 5 miles of Schafer State Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 38 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Recreation and ceremony	9
Debris and open burning	9
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Fireworks	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TWIN HARBOR
7 September 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	PLUG MILL RD
7 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	FISH HATCHERY
7 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 September 2004	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	RUSTY TRACTOR
26 September 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	FORD
16 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
15 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	OUTBACK FIRE

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Schafer State Park: 3 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Institution Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mason 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 10000255 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mason County	All 16 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.