Photograph of Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve — Photograph by Rspang, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Central Whidbey Island Historic District

Built in 1978. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve is a unit of the National Park Service on Whidbey Island in the Puget Sound, near Coupeville in Island County, Washington, United States.”
Wikipedia article Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 15 National Register listings published here for Island County · listed in 1973 · category: District · built in 1978.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

Address. S of Oak Harbor, roughly 6 mi. either side of Coupeville, Oak Harbor, 98239
When was it listed? December 1973
Category. district
Census division. Central Whidbey Island
When was it built? 1978
National Register reference number. 73001869 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

50 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 50 fires within 5 miles of Central Whidbey Island Historic District between 1992 and 2017, burning about 55 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 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	20
Debris and open burning	11
Fireworks	10
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	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 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
27 September 1999	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
20 September 1998	Misuse of fire by a minor	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
11 September 2000	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
11 September 1998	Debris and open burning	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
1 September 2010	Fireworks	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	EBEY'S BLUFF

Every fire recorded in Island County

Mines and quarries near this property

8 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 8 workings within 5 miles of Central Whidbey Island Historic District: 7 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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
Coupeville Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Good Beach Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Harrington Lagoon Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Island County Road Dept. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Keystone Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Libbey-Didco Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Penn Cove Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Prairie Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Island 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

3 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
Colonel Granville & Henrietta Haller House	1.1 miles	2022
Schooner SUVA	1.2 miles	2025
Benjamin Loers House	5.5 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001869 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Island County	All 15 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.