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One of 33 National Register listings published here for Lewis County · listed in 2026 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Cascade School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2026.
The listing
- Address. 101 SW 2nd Street, Chehalis, 98532
- When was it listed? February 2026
- Category. building
- Census division. Centralia-Chehalis
- National Register reference number. 100012691 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
64 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 64 fires within 5 miles of Cascade School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 120 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Debris and open burning | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 10 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Fireworks | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| Other causes | 2 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 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 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 8 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 2.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 5 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 29 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | B & D |
| 14 September 2014 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BROCKWAY |
| 13 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 3.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 11 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | PROFFITT RD |
| 10 September 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | TIMBER TIGER |
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 Cascade School: 12 past producers, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica, Clay. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lund | Silica | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Clay | Past Producer | ||
| Borrow Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Gillingham Pit | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Bernobich Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Fate Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hanaford Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Shorey Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sunbird Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
1 since 2013Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chehalis, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 2013 | Lightning | Chehalis | 1 hurt | A 59 year old motorcycle driver was injured when he was struck by lightning while driving on Interstate-5. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | O. B. McFadden House | 0.2 miles | 1975 |
 | Hillside Historic District | 0.2 miles | 1996 |
| Scout Lodge | 0.3 miles | 2004 | |
 | US Post Office-Chehalis Main | 0.3 miles | 1991 |
 | Lewis County Courthouse | 0.4 miles | 2014 |
 | St. Helens Hotel | 0.5 miles | 1991 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100012691 in Record Group 79. |
| Lewis 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.