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One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1978 · category: District.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Walker Cut Stone Company
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
The listing
- Address. E of Wilkeson, Wilkeson, 98396
- When was it listed? June 1978
- Category. district
- Census division. Mount Rainier
- National Register reference number. 78002770 - 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
47 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 47 fires within 5 miles of Walker Cut Stone Company between 1992 and 2020, burning about 61 acres in total. 2 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 12 |
| Debris and open burning | 8 |
| Other causes | 4 |
| Fireworks | 3 |
| Natural | 2 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 12 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | 156TH SREET |
| 5 September 1997 | Natural | 2.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 4 September 2007 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 24 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 21 September 1994 | Other causes | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 18 September 1992 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 7 August 2006 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 31 August 2013 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | FAIRFAX BRIDGE |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 16 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 16 workings within 5 miles of Walker Cut Stone Company: 14 past producers, 1 prospect, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Flagstone, Graphite. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Creek | Graphite | Occurrence | ||
| Walker Quarry | Flagstone | Past Producer | ||
| Burlington Northern Quarry | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Carbon Ridge Blowdown | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Clearwest-Westfork Pit | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Road 0602 Pit 1818 | Stone | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Gravel Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Coke Ovens | 0.6 miles | 1974 |
 | Holy Trinity Orthodox Church | 0.7 miles | 1989 |
 | Wilkeson School | 0.8 miles | 1976 |
 | Wilkeson Community House | 0.8 miles | 2013 |
 | Wilkeson Arch | 1.0 miles | 2000 |
 | William Bisson House | 3.8 miles | 1982 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 78002770 in Record Group 79. |
| Pierce County | All 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.