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One of 7 National Register listings published here for Benton County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Kennewick Fruit & Produce Company Building
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 215 West Canal Drive, Kennewick, 99336
- When was it listed? July 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. Richland-Kennewick
- National Register reference number. 100011980 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
8 since 2002Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 8 fires within 5 miles of Kennewick Fruit & Produce Company Building between 2002 and 2019, burning about 186 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 | 5 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| 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 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | McNary National Wildlife Refuge | 2ND ST. |
| 10 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 185 acres | Washington State Fire Marshal's Office | STATE PATROL |
| 15 August 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | McNary National Wildlife Refuge | BLACKBERRY |
| 4 July 2002 | Fireworks | under an acre | McNary National Wildlife Refuge | POPLAR |
| 31 July 2011 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Mid Columbia National Wildlife Refuge Complex | LIFESTYLE |
| 22 June 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | McNary National Wildlife Refuge | STORAGE UNIT |
| 9 April 2004 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | McNary National Wildlife Refuge | OLD POST OFFICE |
| 31 March 2007 | Fireworks | under an acre | McNary National Wildlife Refuge | 2ND ST. COMMAND |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 18 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Kennewick Fruit & Produce Company Building: 12 past producers, 6 producers. 6 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D.O.E. Pit No. 1 | Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Cherry Lane Quarry | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Kennewick Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Matheson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Matheson Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Pasco Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Putnam Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sanders and Young Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
7 since 2000Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Kennewick, the town this property stands in, in 7 storm reports between 2000 and 2020: 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 2002 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennewick | $20,000 | Ham radio operator reported trees blown into cars and homes. |
| August 2000 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennewick | $20,000 | no account filed |
| June 2008 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennewick | $2,000 | Carport roof was blown off. |
| May 2020 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennewick | - | Large tree blocking Kennewick Avenue near Newport Street. |
| May 2006 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennewick | - | Grain bin roof blown over and crushed. |
| April 2005 | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennewick | - | no account filed |
| July 2002 | Hail | Kennewick | - | 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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011980 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.