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Photograph of Fort Steilacoom
Photograph by Ben Cody, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Fort Steilacoom

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“Army in 1849 between Lake Steilacoom and the Town of Steilacoom. It was among the first military fortifications built by the U.S. north of the Columbia River in what was to become the State of Washington.”

Wikipedia article Fort Steilacoom, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1977 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. NE of Steilacoom, Steilacoom, 98498
  • When was it listed? November 1977
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Tacoma
  • Architect. August Kautz
  • National Register reference number. 77001350 - 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

4 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Fort Steilacoom between 1992 and 2018, burning about 4 acres in total. 1 started naturally. None 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
Debris and open burning1
Natural1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2008Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTIMBERLAKE
10 August 2018Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.8 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersKETRON ISLAND
20 July 1992Natural2.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
14 May 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 20 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 20 workings within 5 miles of Fort Steilacoom: 19 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Meadow Park Pit & MillLimestone, DimensionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Holroyd Land PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lakeview PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Lakewood PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Mcneil Island Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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

6 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Custer School1.2 miles1987
Steilacoom Catholic Church1.5 miles1974
Nathaniel Orr House and Orchard1.5 miles1972
Davidson House1.6 miles1973
Rhodesleigh1.8 miles1983
Steilacoom Historic District1.9 miles1975

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 77001350 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Pierce CountyAll 215 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.