Twanoh State Park

Built in 1923 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

“Twanoh State Park is a public recreation area located 16 miles (26 km) southwest of Belfair on the east side of Hood Canal in Mason County, Washington. The state park's 188 acres (76 ha) include 3,167 feet (965 m) of saltwater shoreline and 2.5 miles (4.0 km) of inland hiking trails.”
Wikipedia article Twanoh State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 16 National Register listings published here for Mason County · listed in 2014 · category: District · built in 1923, National Park Service rustic.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 12190 E. WA 106, Union, 98528
When was it listed? September 2014
Category. district
Census division. Union-Grapeview
When was it built? 1923
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 14000614 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

75 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 75 fires within 5 miles of Twanoh State Park between 1992 and 2020, burning about 113 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 8 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	22
Debris and open burning	20
Recreation and ceremony	10
Arson/incendiarism	8
Fireworks	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Natural	3
Smoking	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TRAILS END DRIVE
29 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TOLKIEN
25 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	GREENBERG LANE
23 September 2005	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	TWANOH FALLS
13 September 2014	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CANAL
12 September 1999	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
12 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
1 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	NORTH SHORE 7 MILE

Every fire recorded in Mason County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Twanoh State Park: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Beekman Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Belair North Shore Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Cascade Tracts	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Mason 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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Ebenezer Congregational Church	7.0 miles	2018
	Harstine Island Community Hall	7.9 miles	1989

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000614 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Mason County	All 16 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.