Roche Harbor

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

One of 21 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 1977 · category: District.

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

The listing

Address. Northern San Juan Island, San Juan Island, 98250
When was it listed? August 1977
Category. district
Census division. San Juan Island
National Register reference number. 77001356 - 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

43 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 43 fires within 5 miles of Roche Harbor between 1995 and 2019, burning about 29 acres in total. None 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
Recreation and ceremony	15
Debris and open burning	11
Equipment and vehicle use	6
Fireworks	4
Smoking	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Misuse of fire by a minor	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
19 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	San Juan Island National Historical Park	MAINT
7 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	4.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
4 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	JONES ISLAND
3 August 1998	Recreation and ceremony	3.5 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
27 August 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	AFTERGLOW
24 August 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HENRY ISLAD
24 August 1998	Equipment and vehicle use	2.0 acres	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
20 August 2003	Smoking	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 18 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 18 workings within 5 miles of Roche Harbor: 9 occurrences, 8 past producers, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension, Flagstone. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Reid Harbor Quarries	Flagstone	Past Producer
Roche Harbor Quarries	Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Davison Head Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
English Camp Deposit	Limestone, General	Prospect
Henry Island Deposit No. 1	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Johnson Quarries	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Jones Island Depsoit No. 1	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Kellett Bluff Deposit	Limestone, General	Occurrence
Krumdick	Limestone, General	Past Producer
Limestone Point Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer

Every working recorded in San Juan 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

4 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
San Juan Lime Company-Cowell's	6.0 miles	2007
San Juan Island, Lime Kiln Light Station	6.5 miles	1978
American and English Camps, San Juan Island	6.9 miles	1966
San Juan County Courthouse	7.9 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77001356 in Record Group 79.
San Juan County	All 21 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.