Rucker House

Built in 1905. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

“The Rucker Mansion, also known as the Rucker House, is a private residence located in Everett, Washington, United States, and is registered with the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). According to the registry, the home was originally commissioned for $40,000 by the Rucker family as a wedding gift for Ruby Brown, who married Bethel Rucker in December 1904.”
Wikipedia article Rucker Mansion (Everett, Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 52 National Register listings published here for Snohomish County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1905.

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 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 412 Laurel Dr., Everett, 98201
When was it listed? December 1975
Category. building
Census division. Everett
When was it built? 1905
National Register reference number. 75001869 - 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

14 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Rucker House between 1992 and 2019, burning about 24 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Smoking	6
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Fireworks	1
Natural	1
Debris and open burning	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
6 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	KAPOWSIN SWAMP
17 September 1998	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
15 September 2017	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SPENCER ISLAND
28 August 1992	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 July 2014	Fireworks	16 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SKIPLEY BOG
23 July 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	SNO RIVER
17 July 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Snohomish County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 15 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 15 workings within 5 miles of Rucker House: 12 past producers, 2 producers, 1 plant. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Limestone, Dimension, Iron. 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
(Facility) Everett Smelter Slag Dump	Iron, Silica	Plant
Associated Sand and Gravel Co Inc	Limestone, Dimension	Producer
Everett Brick Yard	Clay	Past Producer
Lowell	Clay	Past Producer
Lowell Brick Co	Clay	Past Producer
N Everett	Clay	Past Producer
Ne Everett	Clay	Past Producer
Everett Pit & Plant	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

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Everett, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 2 lightning, 2 funnel cloud, 1 debris flow, 1 flash 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
December 2012	Debris Flow	Everett	$50,000	Seven freight cars were knocked off the tracks by a mudslide near Everett.
September 2005	Lightning	Everett	$2,000	A lightning strike blew a small hole in a house and damaged some electrical outlets.
April 2017	Flash Flood	Everett	-	Heavy rain caused a Flash Flood in Marysville, washing out Heineck Farms.
April 2010	Funnel Cloud	Everett	-	A funnel cloud was spotted between Marysville and Everett.
June 1998	Lightning	Everett	-	Lightning struck the roof of a county courthouse complex, damaging parts of computers and the counties telephone network. Lightning also struck transformers on three power poles.
April 2007	Funnel Cloud	Everett	-	no account filed

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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Rucker Hill Historic District	under 500 feet	1989
Monte Cristo Hotel	0.7 miles	1976
U.S. Post Office and Customshouse	0.8 miles	1976
Everett City Hall	0.8 miles	1990
Snohomish County Courthouse	0.8 miles	1975
Commerce Building	0.9 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001869 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
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.