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One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 2019 · category: Site.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Freeway Park
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
The listing
- Address. 700 Seneca St., Seattle, 98101
- When was it listed? December 2019
- Category. site
- Census division. Seattle
- National Register reference number. 100004789 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2017Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Freeway Park in 2017, burning about 4 acres in total. None started naturally. None 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 |
|---|---|
| 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.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 September 2017 | Debris and open burning | 4.3 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | 8TH AVE |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Freeway Park: 2 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
8 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Seattle, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1996 and 2015: 2 lightning, 1 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. The reports record 1 death. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 2006 | Flash Flood | Seattle | 1 killed, $750,000 | In the Madison Valley area of Seattle, heavy rainfall produced excessive street runoff, flooding about 25 basements and drowning one woman trapped in her basement by rapidly rising water. |
| February 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Seattle | $25,000 | A microburst with winds estimated at 50 mph hit West Seattle knocking down a few trees, damaging two homes and a car. |
| October 2015 | Heavy Rain | Seattle | $10,000 | In Shoreline, heavy rainfall caused a section of concrete to give way in the tunnel leading to a Metro bus barn under the I-5 HOV lanes between 165th and 175th Streets. Repairs to those lanes were completed two days later. |
| July 2013 | Lightning | Seattle | $5,000 | One lightning strike damaged a transformer, which knocked out power to customers in Shoreline. |
| December 1996 | Lightning | Seattle | $3,500 | no account filed |
| May 2010 | Funnel Cloud | Seattle | - | Some bicycles were tossed and a tent blew apart at Genesee Park in the Rainier Valley of Seattle. |
| June 2001 | Tornado (F0) | Seattle | - | A very weak tornado tossed a teacher and a few children into the air. No one was injured. |
| September 1996 | Flood | Seattle | - | no account filed |
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
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist | under 500 feet | 2013 |
 | Eagles Auditorium Building | 0.1 miles | 1983 |
 | Camlin Hotel | 0.1 miles | 1999 |
 | Skinner Building | 0.1 miles | 1978 |
 | Cambridge Apartments | 0.1 miles | 2016 |
 | YWCA Building-Seattle | 0.1 miles | 2006 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100004789 in Record Group 79. |
| King County | All 324 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.