BlockFrom the record
One of 20 National Register listings published here for Pacific County · listed in 1976 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Oysterville Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The listing
- Address. WA 103, Oysterville, 98640
- When was it listed? April 1976
- Category. district
- Census division. Long Beach-North Beach Peninsula
- National Register reference number. 76001898 - 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
24 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 24 fires within 5 miles of Oysterville Historic District between 1992 and 2016, burning about 29 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 |
|---|---|
| Fireworks | 8 |
| Debris and open burning | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 4 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 3 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 3 August 1997 | Misuse of fire by a minor | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 16 August 1993 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 1 August 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 8 July 1995 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 July 1994 | Fireworks | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 6 July 2001 | Fireworks | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 July 2012 | Fireworks | 6.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SAND DOLLAR |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Oysterville Historic District: 2 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Platinum, Gold, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium, Gold, Titanium, Iron. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nahcotta | Platinum, Gold, Iron, Titanium, Metal, Zirconium | Occurrence | Beach Placer | |
| Ocean Park Placer | Gold, Titanium, Iron | Occurrence |
Storms near this property
1 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Oysterville, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 1997: 1 funnel cloud. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 1997 | Funnel Cloud | Oysterville | $2,000 | A funnel cloud moved across Oysterville but did not touch down. However, it damaged a mobile home as it passed overhead. |
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Wreckage, The | 4.3 miles | 1979 |
 | Klipsan Beach Life Saving Station | 5.8 miles | 1979 |
| Shogren Cottage | 6.0 miles | 2019 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 76001898 in Record Group 79. |
| Pacific County | All 20 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.