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One of 15 National Register listings published here for Island County · listed in 2019 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Deception Pass State Park-North Beach Picnic Area Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
The listing
- Address. 41020 WA 20, Oak Harbor, 98277
- When was it listed? November 2019
- Category. district
- Also known as. Historic Park Landscapes in National and State Parks MPS
- Census division. North Whidbey Island
- National Register reference number. 100004645 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
69 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 69 fires within 5 miles of Deception Pass State Park-North Beach Picnic Area Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 28 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Smoking | 8 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Other causes | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
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 | 1.0 acres | Northwest Region-Department of Natural Resources | GINNETT RD |
| 7 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.3 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 6 September 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SLEEPER |
| 5 September 2013 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | CORNET |
| 3 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 2 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 17 September 2005 | Fireworks | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SKAGIT ISLAND CANDLE |
| 17 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 24 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Deception Pass State Park-North Beach Picnic Area Historic District: 8 past producers, 6 occurrences, 5 producers, 4 unknowns. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, REE. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allan Island | Stone | Occurrence | ||
| Fidalgo Island | Silver, Gold, Copper | Occurrence | Underground | |
| Fidalgo Island | Copper, Gold | Prospect | ||
| Henni Pit and Mill | REE | Producer | ||
| Island Mine | Copper, Magnesite, Iron | Occurrence | ||
| Matrix Property | Gold, Copper | Occurrence | Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Pyrite | |
| Mountain Home | Manganese | Occurrence | ||
| Mountain Home Claim | Copper, Manganese | Occurrence | Bementite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Pyrite | |
| Anacortes Quarry and Mill | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Island Frontier Landscape Const.Co. | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown |
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
5 within 8 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deception Pass State Park-Cranberry Lake Caretaker's Area Historic District | 0.5 miles | 2019 | |
| Deception Pass State Park-Cornet Bay Incinerator | 0.6 miles | 2019 | |
| Deception Pass State Park-Cornet Bay Fire Circle | 0.7 miles | 2019 | |
| Deception Pass State Park-Cranberry Lake Bathing and Picnic Area Historic District | 0.7 miles | 2019 | |
| Deception Pass State Park-Rosario and Bowman Bathing, Picnic, and Caretaker's Areas Historic District | 1.0 miles | 2019 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004645 in Record Group 79. |
| Island County | All 15 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.