Moran State Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“Moran State Park is a public recreation area on Orcas Island in Puget Sound's San Juan Islands in the state of Washington, United States. The state park encompasses over 5,000 acres of various terrain including forests, wetlands, bogs, hills, and lakes.”
Wikipedia article Moran State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 21 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 2013 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. 3572 Olga Rd., Olga, 98245
When was it listed? January 2013
Category. district
Census division. Orcas
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 12001140 - 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

16 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Moran State Park between 1997 and 2020, burning about 5 acres in total. 2 started naturally. None 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	4
Smoking	3
Debris and open burning	3
Recreation and ceremony	2
Natural	2
Fireworks	2

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 2019	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	EAGLE LAKE
27 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CLARK IS
22 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
15 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Region-Department of Natural Resources	BONNIE BRAE
10 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest Region-Department of Natural Resources	SEAVIEW
9 August 2001	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
24 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Northwest Region-Department of Natural Resources	POINT LAWRENCE
16 August 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 23 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 23 workings within 5 miles of Moran State Park: 14 occurrences, 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Clay. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Mcgraw-Kittinger Deposit	Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Orcas Island	Clay	Past Producer
Sea Island Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Buck Mountain Deposit No. 1	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Camp Indralaya Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Chuckanut Lime Co. Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Double Hill Deposit No. 1	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Entrance Mountain Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Flaherty Deposit No. 1	Limestone, General	Occurrence

Every working recorded in San Juan 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

6 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
Rosario	2.6 miles	1978
Doe Bay General Store and Post Office	2.9 miles	1986
Alderbrook Farmhouse	3.1 miles	1985
Emmanuel Episcopal Church	4.0 miles	1994
Crow Valley School	5.4 miles	1987
Orcas Hotel	7.2 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 12001140 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Juan County	All 21 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.