U.S. Inspection Station-Ferry, Washington

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Ferry County · listed in 2014 · category: Building.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. U.S. Inspection Station--Ferry, Washington - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 3559 T.B.C. Rd., Curlew, 99118
When was it listed? September 2014
Category. building
Also known as. U.S. Border Inspection Stations MPS
Census division. Curlew
National Register reference number. 14000611 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

61 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 61 fires within 5 miles of U.S. Inspection Station-Ferry, Washington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 184 acres in total. 47 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
Natural	47
Debris and open burning	6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	4
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Recreation and ceremony	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 1996	Natural	under an acre	Colville National Forest	HIKING VULCAN
18 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CATHERINE CREEK
18 September 1998	Natural	3.0 acres	Colville National Forest	CATHERINE CREEK
16 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	GREAT ANFAIR
15 September 2018	Natural	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	NICHOLSON CREEK
12 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Colville National Forest	TORO
4 August 2013	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	WHITE LIGHTNING
4 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Ferry 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 U.S. Inspection Station-Ferry, Washington: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Silver, Platinum. 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
	Croswell	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
	Sappho Property	Copper, Silver, Platinum	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite

Every working recorded in Ferry County

Storms near this property

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Curlew, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire. 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
August 1998	Wildfire	Curlew	$50,000	Lightning sparked many fires near Curlew lake in forest land. Over 40 fires were reported with over 1300 acres burned.
April 2018	Flood	Curlew	$20,000	A road washout cut out and collapsed a 20 foot section of Highway 21 just north of Curlew.
May 2018	Flood	Curlew	$5,000	Highway 21 along the Kettle River near the intersection of Big Goosmus Road was closed due to flooding.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Curlew	$2,500	Gust front from thunderstorm blew tree into house and powerlines. Minor structure damage occurred to house.
May 2017	Flood	Curlew	$1,000	The Kettle River flooded with water over Highway 21 near Little Goosmus Creek.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Curlew	$500	Social media reports of strong winds and minor damage to trees and property near and north of curlew. Damaged tree branches have a 3 inch plus diameter. Time and location estimated based on radar.

Every storm recorded in Ferry 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000611 in Record Group 79.
Ferry County	All 12 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.