St. Joseph's Mission

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“Joseph's Mission is a mission that was established in Oregon Territory, United States (US) by Jesuit priests in 1852. The mission is located near Tampico, Washington and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.”
Wikipedia article St. Joseph's Mission (Tampico, Washington), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 73 National Register listings published here for Yakima County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. E of Tampico on Tampico Rd., Tampico, 98903
When was it listed? December 1976
Category. building
Census division. Yakima
National Register reference number. 76001925 - 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

15 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 15 fires within 5 miles of St. Joseph's Mission between 2000 and 2020, burning about 407 acres in total. 3 started naturally. 2 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
Fireworks	5
Natural	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Debris and open burning	2
Arson/incendiarism	2

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
22 September 2009	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Yakama Agency	POWERLINE RD
26 August 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3.5 acres	Yakama Agency	19320 AHTANUM
20 August 2000	Arson/incendiarism	20 acres	Yakama Agency	WEST VALLE
13 August 2014	Natural	under an acre	Yakama Agency	N. AHTANUM RIDGE
8 July 2016	Arson/incendiarism	102 acres	Yakama Agency	SOUTH AHTANUM
4 July 2018	Fireworks	48 acres	Yakama Agency	S. AHTANUM
4 July 2011	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Yakama Agency	S. AHTANUM # 2
4 July 2011	Fireworks	2.0 acres	Yakama Agency	AHTANUM CANAL

Every fire recorded in Yakima County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of St. Joseph's Mission: 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
	Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Yakima County

Storms near this property

2 since 2000

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tampico, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2000 and 2017: 1 wildfire, 1 flood. 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
February 2017	Flood	Tampico	-	After a brief warm up on 2/9/2017, an ice jam formed and broke loose on the North Fork of the Ahtanum Creek in central Yakima county. The ice moved downstream damaging five homes with water and structural damage. One family was displaced.
July 2000	Wildfire	Tampico	-	Lightning from evening thunderstorms started a 50 acre fire in state forest land on White's Ridge.

Every storm recorded in Yakima 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.

Listed places nearby

1 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Kamiakin's Gardens	3.2 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76001925 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Yakima County	All 73 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.