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One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 1976 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Snoqualmie Falls Cavity Generating Station
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 3 structuress as contributing to the listing.
- Address. N of Snoqualmie on Snoqualmie River, Snoqualmie, 98065
- When was it listed? April 1976
- Category. structure
- Census division. Snoqualmie Valley
- National Register reference number. 76001895 - 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
16 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Snoqualmie Falls Cavity Generating Station between 1992 and 2020, burning about 60 acres in total. None started naturally. 3 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 |
|---|---|
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | RAGING RIVER |
| 13 September 1992 | Recreation and ceremony | 1.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 15 August 2017 | Fireworks | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | STORMWATER POND |
| 5 July 2019 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LITTLE ERNIE |
| 5 July 2008 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MICKEY MOUSE |
| 4 July 2020 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | WINERY |
| 29 July 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | South Puget Sound Region-Department of Natural Resources | ERNIES GROVE 3 |
| 20 July 2013 | Fireworks | 2.0 acres | Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest | ECHO LAKE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 17 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Snoqualmie Falls Cavity Generating Station: 14 past producers, 2 unknowns, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, Dimension, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annie | Copper, Gold, Silver | Unknown | ||
| Leta | Gold, Silver, Copper | Unknown | ||
| Camp Brown Quarry | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Mainline 100 Pit | Stone, Dimension | Past Producer | ||
| Fall City Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Raging River Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Stoen North Bend Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Chisholm Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
3 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Snoqualmie, the town this property stands in, in 3 storm reports between 1997 and 2009: 2 flood, 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.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 1997 | Lightning | Snoqualmie | 1 hurt | A woman holding an umbrella was struck by lightning. |
| January 2009 | Flood | Snoqualmie | $14,000,000 | The cities of Snoqualmie, Carnation, Duvall and Fall City flooded, some residents had to be rescued, many homes were flooded. The Issaquah creek flooded some residences and businesses. It also eroded part of the riverbank, which caused a guest house to fall into the creek. About 40 King County roads were closed. In Pacific, about 1000 people evacuated their homes due to flooding from releases from the Mud Mountain dam, 100 of those homes were damaged, some with 3 feet of water in them. |
| November 2008 | Flood | Snoqualmie | $100,000 | Major flooding on the Snoqualmie River. |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Snoqualmie Falls Hydroelectric Power Plant Historic District | 0.1 miles | 1992 |
 | Snoqualmie Falls | 0.2 miles | 2009 |
 | Snoqualmie School Campus | 0.9 miles | 1989 |
 | Snoqualmie Depot | 1.0 miles | 1974 |
 | Messenger of Peace Chapel Car | 2.1 miles | 2009 |
 | Neighbor-Bennett House | 2.8 miles | 2004 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 76001895 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.