Stevens Pass Historic District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The Stevens Pass Historic District is an area within a large rectangle 3.2 by 18.2 miles and extends from the Martin Creek Tunnel on the western slope of the crest to the eastern portal of the present Cascade Tunnel above Nason Creek on the eastern slope. The area is ruggedly mountainous and the terrain is covered with timber and granitic outcroppings.”
Wikipedia article Stevens Pass Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 1976 · category: District.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. W of Berne on U.S. 2, Berne, 98288
When was it listed? October 1976
Category. district
Census division. Snoqualmie Valley
National Register reference number. 76001884 - 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

48 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 48 fires within 5 miles of Stevens Pass Historic District between 1996 and 2020, burning about 120 acres in total. 27 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
Natural	27
Recreation and ceremony	12
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Other causes	1
Firearms and explosives use	1
Smoking	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
26 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	UPPER WHITE
25 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
20 September 2003	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	CHIEF TRAIL
16 September 2012	Natural	under an acre	Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest	MULE
14 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	DECEPTION FALLS
13 September 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
1 September 2002	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	MARTIN
9 August 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest	STRAW

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Stevens Pass Historic District: 1 producer, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Geothermal. 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
Scenic Hot Springs	Geothermal	Producer
Dept of Highways	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Unknown
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in King 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 record	The nomination case file for reference 76001884 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
King County	All 324 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.