Lakewold

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

From the record

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 2014 · category: Site.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 12317 Gravelly Lake Dr., Lakewood, 98499
When was it listed? December 2014
Category. site
Census division. Tacoma
National Register reference number. 14001055 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

4 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Lakewold between 1992 and 2018, burning about 5 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony	1
Debris and open burning	1
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
10 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.8 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	KETRON ISLAND
20 July 1992	Natural	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
14 May 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 March 2005	Recreation and ceremony	1.0 acres	Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge Complex	SOUTH NISQUALLY

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Lakewold: 18 past producers, 2 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite, Limestone, Dimension. 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
Meadow Park Pit & Mill	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Parkland	Diatomite	Occurrence
Roy	Diatomite	Occurrence
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Holroyd Land Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
Munson, Herbert and Barbara House	0.3 miles	2019
Rhodesleigh	0.9 miles	1983
Boatman-Ainsworth Hose	1.2 miles	1982
Thornewood	1.2 miles	1982
American Lake Veterans Hospital	1.5 miles	2009
Adjutant General's Residence	1.9 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14001055 in Record Group 79.
Pierce County	All 215 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.