Mount Spokane Vista House

Built in 1933 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018.

From the record

One of 159 National Register listings published here for Spokane County · listed in 2018 · category: Building · built in 1933, National Park Service rustic.

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. N 26107 Mt. Spokane Park Dr., Mead, 99021
When was it listed? December 2018
Category. building
Census division. Mount Spokane
When was it built? 1933
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 100003229 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

61 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of Mount Spokane Vista House between 1993 and 2020, burning about 139 acres in total. 32 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	32
Debris and open burning	9
Recreation and ceremony	8
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	1
Other causes	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	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
5 September 2013	Natural	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CONKLIN CATCH
3 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	KIT C7
3 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	Idaho Department of Lands	BRICKLE RIDGE
20 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MT SPOKANE BK
18 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	RAGGED REACH
17 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
12 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
11 September 1996	Natural	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Spokane County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Mount Spokane Vista House: 18 occurrences, 6 prospects, 5 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Uranium, Silica, Uranium, Thorium, Mica. 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
Dahl	Uranium, Thorium	Occurrence
Mount Spokane Mica Deposits	Mica	Occurrence
Quartz Mountain	Silica	Past Producer
Affiliated Mines, Inc.	Uranium	Occurrence
Anaconda Uranium	Uranium	Occurrence
Anaconda Uranium	Uranium	Occurrence
C. I. Smith	Uranium	Occurrence
Carbon	Uranium	Occurrence
Columbia Enterprises	Uranium	Prospect
Curtin	Uranium	Prospect

Every working recorded in Spokane County

Storms near this property

9 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Mead, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 4 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 injuries. 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
August 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Mead	2 hurt, $100,000	no account filed
June 2022	Flood	Mead	$5,000	Flooding of private roads and on Peone Road.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mead	$5,000	Broadcast media reported trees down on powerlines 3 miles northwest of Mead, WA.
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mead	$3,500	Broadcast media reported a tree blown down on a home 2 miles north of Mead, WA.
August 2005	Hail	Mead	$1,000	no account filed
July 2016	Thunderstorm Wind	Mead	$200	A trained spotter reported a tree branch down near near Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA.
April 1999	Tornado (F0)	Mead	-	A weak, cold core tornado touched down briefly in a farm field on the outskirts of Mead.
June 2008	Hail	Mead	-	no account filed
May 1996	Heavy Rain	Mead	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Spokane 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 100003229 in Record Group 79.
Spokane County	All 159 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.