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Red Men Hall

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

“The Red Men Hall, also known as the Redmen Wigwam, was a meeting hall in Index, Washington originally for the Improved Order of Red Men. The building, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, collapsed on New Year's Day 2009.”

Wikipedia article Red Men Hall (Index, Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Snohomish 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Index Ave. at 6th St., Index, 98256
  • When was it listed? April 1973
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Sultan
  • National Register reference number. 73001889 - 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

56 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 56 fires within 5 miles of Red Men Hall between 1992 and 2020, burning about 304 acres in total. 2 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 ceremony29
Missing data/not specified/undetermined8
Fireworks4
Power generation/transmission/distribution3
Debris and open burning3
Smoking2
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Natural2
Other causes1
Arson/incendiarism1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2012Natural1.9 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersPOWERLINE
4 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestLAKE SERENE
3 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestBELL
17 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreNorthwest Region-Department of Natural ResourcesSUNSET FALLS
12 September 1999Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 August 2009Naturalunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestLOWER TROUT
5 August 2006Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreMt. Baker-Snoqualmie National ForestSKOOKUM TRAILHEAD

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 67 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 67 workings within 5 miles of Red Men Hall: 27 past producers, 22 occurrences, 13 prospects, 3 unknowns. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Copper, Silver, Gold, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Barclay CreekGarnetOccurrence
Baring Iron DepositIron, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, CopperPast Producer
Copper BelleCopper, Gold, Silver, TungstenPast ProducerChalcopyrite, Hematite, Magnetite
Copper BelleSilver, Gold, Copper, TungstenPast Producer1910, 1911
Ellis QuarryGranitePast Producer
Gunn Peak ProspectGold, Silver, CopperOccurrenceBornite, Chalcopyrite
Index Bornite ProspectSilver, CopperOccurrenceBornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite
Lake Serene MineCopper, Silver, Iron, GoldProducerBornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Pyrite
Martin, Gail LCopper, TungstenUnknown
Proctor Creek PitLimestone, DimensionProducer

Every working recorded in Snohomish County

Storms near this property

2 since 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Index, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2014 and 2021: 1 debris flow, 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2021FloodIndex$329,000The Snohomish, Skykomish, and Stillaguamish Rivers exceeded flood stage. Urban and small stream flooding also occurred. Heavy rain caused some landslides.
January 2014Debris FlowIndex$2,000Scores of residents near Index remained without power and stranded by a massive landslide that blocks the access road to their homes and prevents emergency crews from reaching the area in Snohomish County.

Every storm recorded in Snohomish 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

1 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Bush House0.1 miles2017

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 73001889 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Snohomish CountyAll 52 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.