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Photograph of Hotel Morck
Photograph by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Hotel Morck

Built in 1924 (Neoclassical architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

From the record

“Hotel Morck is a historic hotel building in Aberdeen, Washington. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article Hotel Morck, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Grays Harbor County · listed in 2016 · category: Building · built in 1924, Neoclassical architecture, by Abraham H. Albertson.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 215 S. K St., Aberdeen, 98520
  • When was it listed? May 2016
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Aberdeen-Hoquiam
  • When was it built? 1924
  • Architectural style. Neoclassical architecture
  • Architect. Abraham H. Albertson
  • National Register reference number. 16000294 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

45 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 45 fires within 5 miles of Hotel Morck between 1992 and 2020, burning about 43 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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 ceremony12
Debris and open burning10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Fireworks4
Natural3
Smoking3
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Other causes1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 1992Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 1995Naturalunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
28 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersABERDEEN LAKE #2
19 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePacific Cascade Region-DNRHUNTLEY
19 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBISHOP
13 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
1 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersENDERSON ROAD
9 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersSKUNK CABAGE FIRE

Every fire recorded in Grays Harbor County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Hotel Morck: 16 past producers, 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silica, Gold, Platinum, Stone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cow Point PlacerGoldOccurrence
HoquiamGold, PlatinumOccurrenceBeach Placer
Hoquiam QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Newskah QuarryStonePast Producer
East AberdeenSilicaPast Producer
West AberdeenSilicaPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Borrow PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Central Park PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Grays Harbor County

Storms near this property

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Aberdeen, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1999 and 2009: 1 heavy rain, 1 flood. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2009FloodAberdeen$1,200,000Nearly 50 roads were closed in the county. The closed roads caused many school districts to cancel classes. Several businesses also closed. Near Copalis Crossing, the Humptulips River flooded several homes. A few homes near Elma were also flooded.
December 1999Heavy RainAberdeen$20,000no account filed

Every storm recorded in Grays Harbor 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Edward & Laura Hulbert House0.6 miles2018
SIERRA (motor ship)0.8 miles1978
Hoquiam Olympic Stadium1.9 miles2006
Hoquiam River Bridge2.7 miles1982
Neil Cooney Mansion2.8 miles1983
Polson, F. Arnold, House and Polson, Alex, Grounds2.9 miles1979

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 16000294 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grays Harbor CountyAll 22 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.