Starrett House

Built in 1889. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

One of 75 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1970 · category: Building · built in 1889.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · 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. 744 Clay St., Port Townsend, 98368
When was it listed? September 1970
Category. building
Census division. Discovery Bay-Port Townsend
When was it built? 1889
National Register reference number. 70000641 - 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

22 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Starrett House between 1992 and 2014, burning about 19 acres in total. 1 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 ceremony	10
Debris and open burning	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Other causes	1
Smoking	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
7 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 September 1992	Arson/incendiarism	2.1 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
27 September 1998	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
17 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MALAMUTE LANE
13 September 1992	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
13 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
12 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
9 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	1.2 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Jefferson County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of Starrett House: 6 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
Cape George Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Irondale Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lindseys New 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 Jefferson County

Storms near this property

1 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Townsend, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 lightning. 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
August 1999	Lightning	Port Townsend	$15,500	A house was struck by lightning, causing structural and electrical damage.

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

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
Horace Tucker House	under 500 feet	1973
Rothschild House	0.1 miles	1970
Colonel Henry Landes House	0.2 miles	2021
St. Paul's Episcopal Church	0.2 miles	1970
Frank Bartlett House	0.2 miles	1973
Rose Theatre	0.2 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000641 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.