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Photograph of Jackson House State Park Heritage Site
Photograph by Shortiefourten, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

John R. Jackson House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Jackson House State Park Heritage Site is a 1.4-acre (0.57 ha) Washington state park centered around the John R. Jackson House, the restored homestead cabin of John R. and Matilda Jackson, who were among the first Euro-American settlers north of the Columbia River.”

Wikipedia article Jackson House State Park Heritage Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 33 National Register listings published here for Lewis County · listed in 1974 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 objectss, 2 structuress, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Listed as. Jackson, John R., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. At Mary's Corner, 11 mi. S of Chehalis on Jackson Hwy., Chehalis, 98532
  • When was it listed? January 1974
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Ethel
  • National Register reference number. 74001968 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

66 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 66 fires within 5 miles of John R. Jackson House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 161 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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 burning32
Missing data/not specified/undetermined14
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony4
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Equipment and vehicle use2
Other causes2
Natural1
Fireworks1

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
6 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMEIER RD
5 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersALPHA RD
3 September 2011Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersGAME DAY
25 September 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTIN MAN
25 September 2000Debris and open burning1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
25 September 1996Debris and open burning1.5 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
20 September 2014Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersBRADY
20 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersLARMON RD

Every fire recorded in Lewis County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of John R. Jackson House: 2 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Keller-Petra-Keller PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Lewis County

Storms near this property

1 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Chehalis, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2013: 1 lightning. The reports record 1 injury. 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
September 2013LightningChehalis1 hurtA 59 year old motorcycle driver was injured when he was struck by lightning while driving on Interstate-5.

Every storm 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74001968 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lewis CountyAll 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.
  • 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.