Claquato Church

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“Claquato Church is a historic Methodist church located in the former community of Claquato, Washington. The structure is recognized as the oldest standing church building in the state of Washington and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.”
Wikipedia article Claquato Church, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Lewis County · listed in 1973 · 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.
Address. Off WA 12, Claquato, 98532
When was it listed? April 1973
Category. building
Census division. Bunker
National Register reference number. 73001882 - 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

52 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 52 fires within 5 miles of Claquato Church between 1992 and 2019, burning about 115 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Debris and open burning	24
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Recreation and ceremony	5
Arson/incendiarism	3
Other causes	3
Smoking	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Natural	2
Fireworks	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 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
29 September 2016	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	B & D
2 September 1998	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
14 September 2014	Misuse of fire by a minor	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	BROCKWAY
13 September 2000	Debris and open burning	3.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
1 September 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SPINDLE WOOD

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Claquato Church: 11 past producers, 2 producers, 1 occurrence. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Silica. 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
Adna Pit No. 2	Stone	Past Producer
Lund	Silica	Occurrence
Unnamed Pit	Clay	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Shorey Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sunbird Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Breen Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Bunker Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis 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
Pennsylvania Avenue-West Side Historic District	2.7 miles	1991
O. K. Palmer House	2.7 miles	1986
Lewis County Courthouse	2.8 miles	2014
O. B. McFadden House	2.8 miles	1975
Chehalis Downtown Historic District	2.9 miles	1997
US Post Office-Chehalis Main	2.9 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001882 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lewis 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.