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One of 23 National Register listings published here for Kittitas County · listed in 1974 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Liberty Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.
The listing
- Address. Both sides of Williams Creek Wagon Rd., Liberty, 98922
- When was it listed? October 1974
- Category. district
- Census division. Cle Elum
- National Register reference number. 74001965 - 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
99 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 99 fires within 5 miles of Liberty Historic District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 44,302 acres in total. 37 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 |
|---|---|
| Natural | 37 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 23 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 18 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| 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 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | DEER GULCH 3 |
| 9 September 2012 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | ROBINSON GULCH |
| 9 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | LOWER 1ST CREEK |
| 9 September 2012 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | UPPER FIRST CREEK |
| 9 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | LION ROCK |
| 9 September 2012 | Natural | 1.0 acres | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | BOULDER CREEK |
| 9 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | SNOWSHOE #1 |
| 9 September 2012 | Natural | under an acre | Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest | SNOWSHOE #2 |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 86 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 86 workings within 5 miles of Liberty Historic District: 37 past producers, 30 occurrences, 15 prospects, 4 producers. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Silver, Gold, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Fleece | Gold, Silver | Occurrence | Gold | |
| Liberty | Gemstone | Occurrence | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Black Diamond | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Burcham | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Francis Virdin Park | Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Gold | |
| Lion Gulch | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Sonny Brown Prospect | Silver, Gold | Occurrence | Gold | |
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Cedar Creek Placer | Gold, Silver | Past Producer | 1918 |
Storms near this property
1 since 2011Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Liberty, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2011: 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2011 | Flood | Liberty | $4,000,000 | Flood waters damaged or closed 22 roads along Manastash, Taneum, Cooke, Coleman, Wilson, and Caribou Creeks. Bridges and irrigation systems were also impacted. |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 74001965 in Record Group 79. |
| Kittitas County | All 23 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.