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Port Gamble Historic District

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“Port Gamble is an unincorporated community on the northwestern shore of the Kitsap Peninsula in Kitsap County, Washington, United States. It is also a small, eponymous bay, along which the community lies, near the entrance to Hood Canal.”
Wikipedia article Port Gamble, Washington, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kitsap County · listed in 1966 · category: District · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. NW end of Kitsap Peninsula near entrance to Hood Canal, Puget Sound, Port Gamble, 98370
When was it listed? November 1966
Category. district
Census division. Poulsbo
National Register reference number. 66000746 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

24 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Port Gamble Historic District between 1994 and 2009, burning about 5 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	8
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	4
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Fireworks	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
30 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
19 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
18 September 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	DIRTY SISTER
8 August 2005	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
6 August 1997	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
31 August 2005	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LITTLE BOSTON
3 August 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
28 August 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Kitsap County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Port Gamble Historic District: 5 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
Jameson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Settle Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Kitsap 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

1 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
	Point No Point Light Station	4.8 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000746 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Kitsap County	All 23 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.