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One of 159 National Register listings published here for Spokane County · listed in 1976 · category: Building · built in 1900.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Hallett House
Built in 1900. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. E. 623 Lake, SE, Medical Lake, 99022
- When was it listed? June 1976
- Category. building
- Census division. Cheney-Medical Lake
- When was it built? 1900
- National Register reference number. 76001915 - 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
155 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 155 fires within 5 miles of Hallett House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,491 acres in total. 12 started naturally. 4 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 47 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 26 |
| Debris and open burning | 16 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 15 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 12 |
| Natural | 12 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 8 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 6 |
| Fireworks | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 4 |
| Smoking | 3 |
| Other causes | 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 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BARTHOLOMEW VALVE |
| 30 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 95 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | LAKELAND VILLAGE |
| 3 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 210 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | FANCHER STUBBLE |
| 29 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | FANCHER |
| 26 September 2009 | Power generation/transmission/distribution | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | WELCOME WIND |
| 25 September 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | WATERFRONT |
| 25 September 2015 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | HWY 902X2 |
| 24 September 1995 | Misuse of fire by a minor | 2.5 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 21 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Hallett House: 20 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Travertine. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Silver Lake | Travertine | Prospect | ||
| Airway Heights Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Giles & Peat Quarry | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Keene Quarry | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Medical Lake, County Quarry | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Wallace Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Washington Monument & Cut Stone Co. | Granite | Past Producer | ||
| Four Lakes Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
1 since 2015Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Medical Lake, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2015: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2015 | Funnel Cloud | Medical Lake | - | A NWS Employee observed a funnel cloud form 4 miles south of Medical Lake, WA. The funnel cloud retracted back into the cloud shortly after and was never observed touching the ground. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Roosevelt Hall | 1.0 miles | 1997 |
| Washington State Normal School at Cheney Historic District | 7.2 miles | 1992 | |
 | Sutton Barn | 7.3 miles | 1975 |
 | David Lowe House | 7.4 miles | 1983 |
| City of Cheney Historic District | 7.5 miles | 2001 | |
 | Cheney Interurban Depot | 7.5 miles | 1979 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 76001915 in Record Group 79. |
| Spokane County | All 159 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.