Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
“Ballast Island was a small artificial island located on the Seattle Waterfront during the late 1800s. Frequent illegal dumping of ballast led to the designation of a specific region of the Seattle harbor where dumping was permitted.”
Wikipedia article Ballast Island (Seattle), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 2021 · category: Site.
Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Ballast Island 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 |
Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Ballast Island: 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 |
Regional 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 |
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.
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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Queen Anne Post Office and Regional Headquarters | 0.1 miles | 2011 | |
 | Iron Pergola | 0.2 miles | 1971 |
 | Pioneer Square-Skid Road District | 0.2 miles | 1970 |
 | Pioneer Building, Pergola, and Totem Pole | 0.2 miles | 1977 |
 | Pioneer Square-Skid Road District (Boundary Increase) | 0.2 miles | 1978 |
 | Colman Building | 0.2 miles | 1972 |
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100006067 in Record Group 79. |
| Wikipedia article | Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA. |
| King County | All 324 listed properties in this county. |
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