Hamilton-Worthington House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

One of 75 National Register listings published here for Jefferson 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 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 101 E. Columbia St., Quilcene, 98376
When was it listed? October 2014
Category. building
Census division. Quilcene Bay-Brinnon
National Register reference number. 14000849 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

49 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 49 fires within 5 miles of Hamilton-Worthington House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 23 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 4 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
Recreation and ceremony	23
Debris and open burning	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Equipment and vehicle use	4
Natural	1
Smoking	1
Other causes	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
6 September 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
30 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 September 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	ROTTEN LOGI FIRE
3 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Olympic National Forest	DAM
19 September 1994	Arson/incendiarism	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
16 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
15 September 2002	Arson/incendiarism	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
14 September 2012	Other causes	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CENTER FIRE

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Hamilton-Worthington House: 15 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Copper, 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
Triple Ore Copper Prospect	Copper, Silver	Prospect
Calkins Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Currier Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
East Quilcene Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Newsted Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Pit 2926-3.8	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Quarry 2849-1.6	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Quarry 2907-10.4	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Quarry 2909-4.8	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Quarry 2926-6.7	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Jefferson County

Storms near this property

1 since 2025

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Quilcene, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2025: 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
February 2025	Heavy Rain	Quilcene	-	Heavy rainfall of 3.21 inches was reported in Quilcene, WA.

Every storm recorded in Jefferson 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
	Quilcene Ranger Station	0.3 miles	2012
	Earl Oatman House	6.4 miles	1983

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000849 in Record Group 79.
Jefferson County	All 75 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.