Skagit River and Newhalem Creek Hydroelectric Projects (Boundary Increase)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.

From the record

One of 74 National Register listings published here for Whatcom County · listed in 2011 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. WA 20 Corridor, Newhalem, 98283
When was it listed? February 2011
Category. district
Census division. East Whatcom
National Register reference number. 11000016 - 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

40 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 40 fires within 5 miles of Skagit River and Newhalem Creek Hydroelectric Projects (Boundary Increase) between 1992 and 2019, burning about 7,284 acres in total. 28 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
Natural	28
Recreation and ceremony	6
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Fireworks	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Debris and open burning	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 2019	Natural	under an acre	North Cascades National Park	WEE
8 September 2019	Natural	2.0 acres	North Cascades National Park	OVERLOOK
7 September 2019	Natural	under an acre	North Cascades National Park	SOURDOUGH STRIKE
6 September 2006	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	North Cascades National Park	NEW HALEM CG
4 September 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	North Cascades National Park	SOURDOUGH
23 September 2011	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Ross Lake National Recreation Area	COLONIAL CREEK
1 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	North Cascades National Park	PYRAMID RG
9 August 1998	Smoking	under an acre	North Cascades National Park	PYRAMID LK

Every fire recorded in Whatcom County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Skagit River and Newhalem Creek Hydroelectric Projects (Boundary Increase): 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Chromium. 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
	Diablo	Chromium	Unknown
	Diablo Claim	Chromium	Occurrence	Chromite

Every working recorded in Whatcom County

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

5 within 8 miles

Other 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Diablo Hydroelectric Power Plant	1.5 miles	1989
Skagit River and Newhalem Creek Hydroelectric Projects	1.6 miles	1996
Devil's Corner Cliff Walk	3.0 miles	1974
Gorge Hydroelectric Power Plants	3.0 miles	1989
Sourdough Mountain Lookout	3.8 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 11000016 in Record Group 79.
Whatcom County	All 74 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.