Built in 1955. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
From the record
“Fort Flagler Historical State Park is a public recreation area that occupies the site of Fort Flagler, a former United States Army fort at the northern end of Marrowstone Island in Washington. The state park occupies 1,451 acres (587 ha) south of the entrance to Admiralty Inlet, and the Marrowstone Point Light stands adjacent.”
Wikipedia article Fort Flagler State Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 75 National Register listings published here for Jefferson County · listed in 1976 · category: District · built in 1955.
National Register reference number.76001882- 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
29 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 29 fires within 5 miles of Fort Flagler
between 1992 and 2014, burning about 17 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
10
Fireworks
3
Smoking
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Arson/incendiarism
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
4 September 1998
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
16 September 1992
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
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
30 August 2001
Recreation and ceremony
1.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
28 August 2000
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
27 August 2009
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
3 workings within 5 miles of Fort Flagler: 2 past producers, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, REE. 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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