BlockFrom the record
One of 7 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 2024 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Post Office and Federal Office Building
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2024.
The listing
- Address. 825 Jadwin Avenue, Richland, 99352
- When was it listed? September 2024
- Category. building
- Census division. Richland-Kennewick
- National Register reference number. 100010893 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
6 since 1995Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 6 fires within 5 miles of Post Office and Federal Office Building between 1995 and 2018, burning about 4,713 acres in total. None 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 1 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 August 1995 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Spokane District | KENNEDY RD |
| 29 August 1997 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Spokane District | TAMARAK LN |
| 11 August 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 4,700 acres | Washington State Fire Marshal's Office | BOFFER |
| 7 July 2012 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Hanford Reach National Monument | HWY 240 MP 17 |
| 10 July 2000 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 6.2 acres | Columbia National Wildlife Refuge | DOS X'S |
| 30 June 2003 | Arson/incendiarism | 2.0 acres | Hanford Reach National Monument | TAYLOR FLAT |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 13 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of Post Office and Federal Office Building: 11 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer. 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acme Concrete Co | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Fallon Bridge Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Fallon River Bar | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Occurrence | ||
| Richland Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| State R-50 Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
14 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Richland, the town this property stands in, in 14 storm reports between 2001 and 2020: 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, 1 funnel cloud, 1 dust devil. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| June 2005 | Dust Devil | Richland | $1,000 | no account filed |
| March 2020 | Tornado (EF0) | North Richland | - | Multiple public videos of a weak landspout tornado on the north side of Richland, WA in an open area. No damage reported. |
| June 2017 | Flash Flood | Richland | - | Numerous intersections were flooded in Kennewick and Richland Washington, including Canal Drive and Volland Street, Gage Boulevard and Quinault Street. The Columbia Park Trail was closed from Hillwood to Rockwood due to flooding. Vista Field in Kennewick had 1.05 inches in one hour, with spotter reports of 0.64 inches to 0.94 inches in Richland and 0.70 inches to 1.01 inches in Kennewick. |
| September 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Richland | - | Hanford Mesonet measured a 68 mph wind gust. |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richland | - | Hanford Army Loop Road station reported 61 mph. |
| July 2001 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richland | - | A wind gust of 60 mph was measured at one of the observing sites on the Hanford Reservation. |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Richland | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | North Richland | - | no account filed |
| August 2013 | Thunderstorm Wind | West Richland | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richland | - | no account filed |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richland | - | no account filed |
| April 2005 | Funnel Cloud | Richland | - | no account filed |
| June 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Richland | - | no account filed |
| June 2001 | Hail | Richland | - | 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
1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Gold Coast Historic District | 1.4 miles | 2005 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100010893 in Record Group 79. |
| Benton County | All 7 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.