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One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Dr. Johan and Louise Wenberg House
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 5 objectss, 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Listed as. Wenberg, Dr. Johan and Louise, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
- Address. 5360 232nd Avenue SE, Issaquah, 98029
- When was it listed? May 2024
- Category. building
- Census division. Issaquah Plateau
- National Register reference number. 100010385 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
6 since 1993Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Dr. Johan and Louise Wenberg House between 1993 and 2011, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Smoking | 1 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1 |
| Natural | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2011 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | RAGING RIVER |
| 3 September 2007 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SQUAK MOUNTAIN |
| 15 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 10 September 1993 | Smoking | 2.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 28 August 2011 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MITCHELL HILL |
| 9 July 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Dr. Johan and Louise Wenberg House: 14 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Fire Clay (Refractory), Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harris Clay Mine | Fire Clay (Refractory) | Producer | ||
| Sunset Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Harris Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Section 31 Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Foster Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hjort Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Issaquah Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Issaquah Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 1999Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Issaquah, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1999 and 2013: 1 heavy rain, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 1999 | Heavy Rain | Issaquah | $85,000 | Heavy rains led to a road being washed out by Issaquah Creek. |
| December 2010 | Thunderstorm Wind | Issaquah | $25,000 | About 8600 Seattle City Light customers lost power. About 300 homes in the Sammamish area lost power and one had a tree fall on it. In Maple valley a lumber storage building had its roof ripped off. |
| July 2013 | Lightning | Issaquah | $10,000 | South of Issaquah, a tree fell and struck a woman standing on her porch. The woman suffered a broken hip. A lightning strike sparked a gas leak in a Sammamish neighborhood, it hit a house, then went through the gutter system and ruptured a buried gas line 100 feet away and causing flammable gas to spew into the air. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Pickering Farm | 1.0 miles | 1983 |
 | Issaquah Depot | 1.5 miles | 1990 |
 | Issaquah Sportsmen's Club | 1.8 miles | 1998 |
| Brandes House | 2.0 miles | 1994 | |
 | Preston Community Clubhouse | 5.0 miles | 2008 |
 | Pacific Coast Company House No. 75 | 6.0 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010385 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.