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Cloverfields

Built in 1914 (Dutch Colonial Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

From the record

“Cloverfields Dairy Farm was a model dairy farm located in Olympia, Washington. Built by former Washington state pioneer Hazard Stevens after he returned to Olympia in 1914, today the farmhouse is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.”

Wikipedia article Cloverfields, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 68 National Register listings published here for Thurston County · listed in 1978 · category: Building · built in 1914, Dutch Colonial Revival architecture.

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. 1100 Carlyon Ave., SE, Olympia, 98501
  • When was it listed? May 1978
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Olympia
  • When was it built? 1914
  • Architectural style. Dutch Colonial Revival architecture
  • National Register reference number. 78002779 - 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

117 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 117 fires within 5 miles of Cloverfields between 1992 and 2020, burning about 75 acres in total. None started naturally. 7 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/undetermined40
Recreation and ceremony25
Debris and open burning23
Arson/incendiarism7
Misuse of fire by a minor5
Railroad operations and maintenance5
Equipment and vehicle use5
Fireworks4
Smoking2
Other causes1

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
8 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersI-5 TRAIL SE
8 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersMALL FIRE
8 September 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
6 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
5 September 2018Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersTROSPER LAKE
30 September 1993Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named
3 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersEXIT 108
3 September 2007Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters830

Every fire recorded in Thurston County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 25 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 25 workings within 5 miles of Cloverfields: 22 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Stone, 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
Tumwater Sand & Gravel PitStone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Delphi QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Mottman QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Webber QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
29th Street PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Ames Huntly Road PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Capitol Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Decatur St. PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Deschutes PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Gleason Kearney PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in Thurston County

Storms near this property

2 since 2001

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Olympia, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2001 and 2006: 1 funnel cloud, 1 heavy rain. 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 2006Heavy RainOlympia$30,000no account filed
May 2001Funnel CloudOlympia-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Thurston 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
SAND MAN (Tug Boat)0.2 miles1998
F. W. Schmidt House0.2 miles1995
Trueman and Virginia Schmidt House0.4 miles2015
Tumwater Historic District0.8 miles1978
South Capitol Neighborhood Historic District0.9 miles1991
Capital Boulevard Crossing0.9 miles1982

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 78002779 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Thurston CountyAll 68 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.