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Photograph of Glencove Hotel
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Glencove Hotel

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“The Glencove Hotel is a former hotel in Glencove, Washington. It was built in 1897 by Hans Nicholas and Agnes Petersen.”

Wikipedia article Glencove Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1978 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. W of Gig Harbor off WA 302, Gig Harbor, 98329
  • When was it listed? May 1978
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Key Peninsula-Anderson Island
  • National Register reference number. 78002767 - 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

22 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 22 fires within 5 miles of Glencove Hotel between 1994 and 2020, burning about 25 acres in total. None started naturally. 5 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/undetermined5
Debris and open burning5
Arson/incendiarism5
Recreation and ceremony4
Other causes1
Fireworks1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
15 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersVICTOR
13 September 1999Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
12 September 2012Arson/incendiarism5.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersCARNEY LAKE
11 September 2017Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersVAUGHN CREEK
1 September 2002Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
15 August 2012Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersVICTOR JUNCTION
14 August 1996Other causesunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
12 August 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersHWY 3

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Glencove Hotel: 5 past producers. 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
144th St. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Unnamed PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this property

2 since 2002

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Gig Harbor, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2002 and 2015: 1 funnel cloud, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
January 2015Tornado (EF1)Gig Harbor-Tornado starting from about 4 miles wsw of Gig Harbor dissipating just ene of Gig Harbor. Tornado determination based on eye-witness reports and video. Maximum intensity EF1. Wind up to 110 mph. Path length 4.1 miles. Maxmimum width up to 175 yards.
June 2002Funnel CloudGig Harbor-A funnel cloud was sighted in the Gig Harbor area.

Every storm 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
Arletta School5.1 miles1987
David Dadisman House5.2 miles1995
Home School5.2 miles1982
Purdy Bridge5.8 miles1982
Andrew & Bertha Skansie Net Shed and House7.1 miles2011
Midway School7.3 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78002767 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.
  • 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.