Photograph of WT Preston — Photograph by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

W. T. PRESTON (snagboat)

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.

From the record

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Skagit County · listed in 1972 · category: Structure · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. Anacortes waterfront, R Ave., at foot of 7th St., Anacortes, 98107
When was it listed? March 1972
Category. structure
Census division. Anacortes
National Register reference number. 72001270 - 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

51 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 51 fires within 5 miles of W. T. PRESTON (snagboat) between 1992 and 2020, burning about 40 acres in total. 1 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	23
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Smoking	7
Debris and open burning	6
Other causes	2
Fireworks	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Natural	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
8 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CAMPSITE 9
2 September 1997	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
18 September 1993	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
10 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CAMPBELL LAKE
3 August 2019	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CAP SANTE
3 August 1997	Other causes	under an acre	Puget Sound Agency	USCHURCH
29 August 2011	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HEART LAKE
29 August 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	MT. ERIE

Every fire recorded in Skagit County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 31 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 31 workings within 5 miles of W. T. PRESTON (snagboat): 13 occurrences, 7 past producers, 5 producers, 3 prospects. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Chromium, Copper. 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	Recorded
Anacortes	Chromium, Platinum	Occurrence	Chromite
Fidalgo Island	Copper, Gold	Prospect
Island Mine	Copper, Magnesite, Iron	Occurrence
Mountain Home Claim	Copper, Manganese	Occurrence	Bementite, Chalcopyrite, Copper, Pyrite
Stephens	Copper, Silver, Gold	Past Producer
Anacopper	Silver, Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Copper, Gold
Fidalgo Island	Silver, Gold, Copper	Occurrence	Underground
Stephens	Copper, Gold, Silver	Occurrence
Stephens	Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Anacortes Quarry and Mill	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Skagit 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 72001270 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Skagit County	All 33 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.