Built in 1889. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.
From the record
“Northwestern Improvement Company Store, also known as the NWI Building, is a historic building in Roslyn, Washington, the sole structure remaining from the days of the Roslyn Coal Field. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.”
Wikipedia article Northwestern Improvement Company Store, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kittitas County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · built in 1889.
National Register reference number.73001881- 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
133 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 133 fires within 5 miles of Northwestern Improvement Company Store
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 127 acres in total. 13 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
41
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
32
Debris and open burning
19
Natural
13
Equipment and vehicle use
8
Misuse of fire by a minor
5
Smoking
5
Fireworks
4
Other causes
3
Arson/incendiarism
2
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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
9 September 2007
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
WINCHESTER
7 September 1992
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
6 September 1994
Equipment and vehicle use
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
6 September 1993
Fireworks
1.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
5 September 2012
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
BULL FROG WOODCHIP
4 September 1995
Natural
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
28 September 2019
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
MINE TRAIL
22 September 2011
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
23 workings within 5 miles of Northwestern Improvement Company Store: 17 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 producers, 2 occurrences.
2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Gold, Iron. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Roslyn, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 2003 and 2006: 2 wildfire, 1 hail.
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.
The Square Lake Fire began on August 25th, and burned a total of 1,097 acres. The fire was a lightning sparked fire, and became completely contained on September 30th.
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
4 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.
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.
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