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One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 2016 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Wedge Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
The listing
- Address. Triangle area bounded by Division and 6th Aves., and South M St., Tacoma, 98405
- When was it listed? December 2016
- Category. district
- Census division. Tacoma
- National Register reference number. 16000856 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
1 since 2005Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1 fire within 5 miles of Wedge Historic District in 2005, burning under an acre in total. None 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 |
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 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SPILLMAN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Wedge Historic District: 14 past producers, 2 plants. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper, Nickel, Arsenic, Aluminum, Contained or Metal. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Facility) Asarco Refinery | Copper, Nickel, Arsenic | Plant | ||
| Tacoma Reduction Plant | Aluminum, Contained or Metal | Plant | 1943 | |
| Christel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Hylebus Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| McKinney Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sound Refining Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Sprague & S. Tacoma Way Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tacoma, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2015: 2 heavy rain, 1 tornado. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1997 | Tornado (F1) | Tacoma | $150,000 | A weak tornado touched down in a south Tacoma neighborhood just east of I-5. A church suffered roof and beam damage and several trees were pushed over or snapped off. There were also some downed fences. |
| October 2015 | Heavy Rain | Tacoma | $50,000 | A landslide closed southbound Schuster Parkway in Tacoma on the afternoon of Oct 10th after a burst of heavy rain moved through Pierce County. The heavy rain and wind also caused sporadic power outages and some spinouts elsewhere in Pierce County. A part of I-705 was also closed at South 11th Street due to flooding. ||Runoff from the heavy rainfall overwhelmed drainage systems near Tacoma's Stadium High School resulting water and debris running through the campus and tumbling into and flooding the football field. |
| September 2013 | Heavy Rain | Tacoma | $50,000 | Heavy rain inundated more than 60 units in a mini storage business in Tacoma.|Tacomas environmental services crews responded to 76 calls of flooding due to heavy rain. |
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 milesOther 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Frederick H. Murray House | under 500 feet | 1985 |
 | Annobee Apartments | 0.2 miles | 1999 |
| South J Street Historic District | 0.3 miles | 1986 | |
 | Wright Park and Seymour Conservatory | 0.4 miles | 1976 |
 | Henry A. and Birdella Rhodes House | 0.4 miles | 2006 |
 | McIlvaine Apartments | 0.4 miles | 1995 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 16000856 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.
- 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.