D. O. Pearson House

Built in 1890. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.

From the record

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Snohomish County · listed in 1973 · category: Building · built in 1890.

Sources: 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.
Listed as. Pearson, D. O., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Pearson and Market Sts., Stanwood, 98292
When was it listed? May 1973
Category. building
Census division. Stanwood
When was it built? 1890
National Register reference number. 73001890 - 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

41 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 41 fires within 5 miles of D. O. Pearson House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 20 acres in total. None 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
Debris and open burning	21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Smoking	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
9 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.1 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	PIONEER
4 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	36TH AVE
19 September 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
11 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
8 August 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
31 August 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
3 August 2014	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	STANWOOD MULCH

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 13 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 13 workings within 5 miles of D. O. Pearson House: 10 past producers, 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 unknown. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite. 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
Florence	Diatomite	Occurrence
East Stanwood Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lake Ketchum Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Sand and Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Schenk Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Snohomish County

Storms near this property

3 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Stanwood, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2004: 1 flood, 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
May 1997	Flood	Stanwood	$5,000	Heavy, slow moving showers dropped between one and two inches of rain in a 5 hour period around Camano Island. Gardens were washed out and there was flooding of garages and basements.
June 2004	Tornado (F0)	Stanwood	-	A tornado briefly touched down on I-5 just south of the Stanwood exit.
April 2000	Funnel Cloud	Stanwood	-	A cold air funnel dropped down to about 2000 ft above ground level from a cloud deck about 4000 ft AGL.

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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Stanwood IOOF Public Hall	under 500 feet	2002

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 73001890 in Record Group 79.
Snohomish County	All 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.