U.S. Inspection Station-Laurier, 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 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. U.S. Inspection Station--Laurier, Washington - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. US 395, Laurier, 99146
When was it listed? September 2014
Category. building
Also known as. U.S. Border Inspection Stations MPS
Census division. East Ferry
National Register reference number. 14000612 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

34 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 34 fires within 5 miles of U.S. Inspection Station-Laurier, Washington between 1992 and 2020, burning about 222 acres in total. 25 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	25
Debris and open burning	3
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	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
9 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	IMPERIAL WAY
5 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Colville National Forest	RICHARD'S BIG TREE
5 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Colville National Forest	WEDGE
4 September 1995	Natural	under an acre	Colville National Forest	LAURIER
2 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Colville National Forest	GROUSE MOUNTAIN
19 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	ELK
15 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Colville National Forest	OWL MTN.
15 September 2000	Natural	under an acre	Colville National Forest	MERIDIAN FIRE

Every fire recorded in Ferry County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 58 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 58 workings within 5 miles of U.S. Inspection Station-Laurier, Washington: 29 prospects, 21 occurrences, 7 past producers, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Lead, Gold, Silver. 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	Recorded
Bald Eagle	Gold, Silver, Copper	Prospect
Carl Sanstrom	Gold, Antimony, Copper, Silver	Occurrence
Comstock	Copper, Silver, Gold	Prospect	Vein
Iron Mask	Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Vein
Iron Mask	Zinc, Silver, Copper, Gold, Lead	Prospect
Laurier	Asbestos	Occurrence	Chrysotile
Little Giant	Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver	Prospect	Bornite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite
Little Giant	Lead, Silver, Gold, Copper	Past Producer
McKinley	Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper	Prospect	Vein
Montana and Washington	Copper, Gold, Silver	Prospect	Vein

Every working recorded in Ferry County

Storms near this property

3 since 2015

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Laurier, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2015 and 2022: 1 hail, 1 flood, 1 heavy rain. 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
March 2017	Flood	Laurier	$780,000	Numerous roads in Ferry County were closed due to flooding and debris flows through the second half of March due to spring snow melt and periodic heavy rain. Ferry County was included in a Washington State State of Emergency declaration due to widespread flooding issues.
July 2022	Heavy Rain	Laurier	-	Owl Mountain Raws reported 0.59 of rain. Other raws in the area recorded 0.3-0.5 of rain.
May 2015	Hail	Laurier	-	US Customs reported .75 inch hail and strong wind from a thunderstorms that passed over Lauier, Washington.

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 14000612 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.