William Perry Bruce House

Built in 1883. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.

From the record

One of 32 National Register listings published here for Walla Walla County · listed in 1975 · category: Building · built in 1883.

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. Bruce, William Perry, House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 4th and Main Sts., Waitsburg, 99361
When was it listed? November 1975
Category. building
Census division. Waitsburg
When was it built? 1883
National Register reference number. 75001878 - 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

4 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of William Perry Bruce House between 1995 and 2017, burning about 1,462 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Recreation and ceremony	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
5 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1,350 acres	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	WHETSTONE RD
13 July 1995	Power generation/transmission/distribution	100 acres	Spokane District	SMITH CYN
26 June 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
27 May 2017	Recreation and ceremony	1.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	LEWIS AND CLARK

Every fire recorded in Walla Walla County

Mines and quarries near this property

6 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 6 workings within 5 miles of William Perry Bruce House: 6 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Mills Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Hale Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Mays Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Waitsburg Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Walla Walla County

Storms near this property

9 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Waitsburg, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2000 and 2026: 4 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 funnel cloud, 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
October 2000	Heavy Rain	Waitsburg	$90,000	Substantial rains over the previous day, coupled with an early morning thunderstorm that dumped over one-half inch of rain in 45 minutes, lead to widespread agricultural runoff that washed mud over several local roads. Rushing waters stripped several layers of gravel from Miller Road, located just west of Waitsburg. Several local gravel roads needed to be completely regraded.
March 2026	Flood	Waitsburg	-	The Walla Walla County dispatch reported flooding along the Touchet River in the town of Waitsburg the morning of the 14th. The dispatch center relayed that a levee near the Preston Ave bridge had been breached, leading to flooding of properties along the Touchet River. Several roads in the Waitsburg area were also closed, including US Highway 12, due to water over the roadway.
June 2012	Hail	Waitsburg	-	Hail up to half dollar size accompanied by 60 mph winds wind shredded window screens.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Waitsburg	-	Tree limbs on power lines knocked power out.
August 2019	Hail	Waitsburg	-	no account filed
August 2019	Hail	Waitsburg	-	no account filed
August 2008	Hail	Waitsburg	-	no account filed
April 2005	Flash Flood	Waitsburg	-	no account filed
April 2001	Funnel Cloud	Waitsburg	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Walla Walla 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

3 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
Preston Hall	0.2 miles	1993
Waitsburg High School	0.2 miles	2001
Waitsburg Historic District	0.2 miles	1978

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 75001878 in Record Group 79.
Walla Walla County	All 32 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.