A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
From the record
“Fort Worden Historical State Park is located in Port Townsend, Washington, on 433 acres originally known as Fort Worden, a United States Army Coast Artillery Corps base constructed to protect Puget Sound from invasion by sea. Navy Rear Admiral John Lorimer Worden, commander of USS Monitor during the famous Battle of Hampton Roads during the American Civil War.”
Wikipedia article Fort Worden, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 75 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.74001954- 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
21 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 21 fires within 5 miles of Fort Worden Building 502
between 1992 and 2014, burning about 20 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
12
Debris and open burning
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Other causes
1
Smoking
1
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
7 September 1992
Arson/incendiarism
2.1 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
27 September 1998
Debris and open burning
1.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
17 September 2009
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
MALAMUTE LANE
13 September 1992
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
9 August 1997
Recreation and ceremony
1.2 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
5 August 1994
Recreation and ceremony
2.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
5 August 1992
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
2 August 1994
Recreation and ceremony
2.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Fort Worden Building 502: 5 past producers.
None of them 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.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Port Townsend, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1999: 1 lightning.
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.
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.
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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