Ezra Meeker Mansion

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

From the record

“The Meeker Mansion Museum is a historic house in Puyallup, Washington, United States. It is the second of two homes in the city which were resided in by Oregon Trail pioneer Ezra Meeker, the first one being a cabin on the homestead claim which Meeker as well as Hunter Thompson and Will Brines purchased from Jerry Stilly in 1862.”
Wikipedia article Ezra Meeker Mansion, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1971 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · 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.
Listed as. Meeker, Ezra, Mansion - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 321 Pioneer Ave., E., Puyallup, 98372
When was it listed? August 1971
Category. building
Census division. Puyallup
National Register reference number. 71000879 - 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

9 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Ezra Meeker Mansion between 1992 and 2020, burning about 517 acres 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	6
Debris and open burning	1
Smoking	1
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
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	494 acres	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	SUMNER GRADE
5 August 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	EHLI HILL
21 August 1996	Smoking	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
20 August 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12 acres	Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge Complex	MCCALLISTER CREEK
4 July 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
26 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MCCUTCHEON
1 July 1995	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
9 June 1992	Recreation and ceremony	2.9 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 24 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 24 workings within 5 miles of Ezra Meeker Mansion: 21 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Calcium. 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
Mcmillan	Calcium	Past Producer
Anderson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Aztec Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Carl G. Olson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Firwood Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lidford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lundblad Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Milcane Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Norm's Auto Wrecking Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this property

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Puyallup, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2015: 1 lightning, 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
December 2015	Flood	North Puyallup	$25,000	Trailers in an RV park were flooded.
September 2013	Lightning	Puyallup	$5,000	Lightning struck a home and damaged several electrical items inside.

Every storm 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
Christ Episcopal Church	0.4 miles	1994
J. H. Lotz House	0.8 miles	1980
Puyallup Fish Hatchery	1.3 miles	2013
Ryan House	2.6 miles	1976
Herbert Williams House	3.1 miles	1984
Alderton School	3.2 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 71000879 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.