BlockFrom the record
One of 33 National Register listings published here for Skagit County · listed in 2010 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Northern State Hospital
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
The listing
- Address. Roughly bounded by Thompson Dr to the S, Hemlick Dr to the E, Hub Dr to the W, and 1/4 mi S of Mosier Rd to the N, Sedro Woolley, 98284
- When was it listed? December 2010
- Category. district
- Census division. Upper Samish River
- National Register reference number. 10001043 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Fires near this property
48 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Northern State Hospital between 1992 and 2020, burning about 30 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 20 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 9 |
| Fireworks | 7 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 1 |
| Smoking | 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 1995 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 29 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | STICKY WICKET |
| 2 September 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BLUE MOON |
| 19 September 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | DUKES HILL |
| 13 September 1999 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Puget Sound Agency | SKAGHOUSE |
| 1 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 8 August 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 August 2011 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | ELK RUN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 32 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 32 workings within 5 miles of Northern State Hospital: 16 unknowns, 8 occurrences, 6 producers, 2 past producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Nickel, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dukes Hill Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Producer | ||
| Scott | Asbestos, Arsenic, Gemstone | Occurrence | ||
| Dukes Hill Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Ianicki Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Sedro Woolley | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Unknown | ||
| Clear Lake | Nickel | Occurrence | ||
| Day Creek Roadcut Exposure | Nickel | Occurrence | Pyrite | |
| George Scott | Nickel | Occurrence | ||
| George Scott Claim | Nickel | Occurrence | ||
| Powell Creek | Nickel | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
1 since 2007Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sedro Woolley, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 lightning. The reports record 5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2007 | Lightning | Sedro Woolley | 5 hurt | Skagit county sheriff reported that 5 people were injured and taken to the hospital after lightning struck a tree near Sedro Woolley and the current hit the five sheltering under a gazebo near to the tree. |
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
4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | US Post Office-Sedro Woolley Main | 2.6 miles | 1991 |
| Hoogdal School | 3.2 miles | 2024 | |
 | Birdsey D. Minkler House | 6.5 miles | 1988 |
 | Burlington Carnegie Library | 6.8 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 10001043 in Record Group 79. |
| Skagit County | All 33 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.