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One of 68 National Register listings published here for Thurston County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
National Guard Armory - Olympia
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- Address. 515 Eastside Street SE, Olympia, 98501
- When was it listed? May 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. Olympia
- National Register reference number. 100011856 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
91 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 91 fires within 5 miles of National Guard Armory - Olympia between 1992 and 2020, burning about 37 acres in total. None started naturally. 6 were 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 | 34 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 20 |
| Debris and open burning | 14 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
| Other causes | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | I-5 TRAIL SE |
| 8 September 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MALL FIRE |
| 8 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 6 September 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 5 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | TROSPER LAKE |
| 5 September 1998 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 1.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 30 September 1993 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | EXIT 108 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 25 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of National Guard Armory - Olympia: 23 past producers, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tumwater Sand & Gravel Pit | Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Delphi Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Mottman Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Webber Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| 29th Street Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Ames Huntly Road Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Capitol Lake Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Decatur St. Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gleason Kearney Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2001Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olympia, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2006: 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2006 | Heavy Rain | Olympia | $30,000 | no account filed |
| May 2001 | Funnel Cloud | Olympia | - | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Frank Rudkin House | 0.2 miles | 1987 |
 | Reinhart-Young House | 0.2 miles | 1987 |
| Funk House | 0.2 miles | 1987 | |
 | Charles Patnude House | 0.3 miles | 1978 |
 | Allen House Hotel | 0.4 miles | 1987 |
 | Daniel R. Bigelow House | 0.4 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011856 in Record Group 79. |
| Thurston County | All 68 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.