Ansorge Hotel

Built in 1907. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Ansorge Hotel is a turn of the 20th century two-story building in Curlew, Washington. It was built in 1907 next to the Great Northern Railway and Republic and Kettle Valley Railway lines.”
Wikipedia article Ansorge Hotel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Ferry County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1907.

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. River St. and Railroad Ave., Curlew, 99118
When was it listed? March 1979
Category. building
Census division. Curlew
When was it built? 1907
National Register reference number. 79002530 - 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

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Ansorge Hotel between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,808 acres in total. 65 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
Natural	65
Debris and open burning	16
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	12
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Other causes	2
Smoking	1
Railroad operations and maintenance	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
8 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	KETTLE
8 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Colville National Forest	MERRY GOOSMUS
7 September 2020	Equipment and vehicle use	2,208 acres	Northeast Region-Department of Natural Resources	CUSTOMS ROAD
7 September 2013	Natural	under an acre	Colville National Forest	VULCAN PINCH
6 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	not named
5 September 2009	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	HARRIER THAN ME
21 September 2008	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	CUSTOM TRUCK
2 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	Colville National Forest	INCIDENT 171

Every fire recorded in Ferry County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 21 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 21 workings within 5 miles of Ansorge Hotel: 9 occurrences, 7 past producers, 2 prospects, 2 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Silver. 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	Recorded
Boston & New York	Silver, Copper, Lead	Occurrence
Boston and New York	Silver, Copper, Lead	Past Producer
Comstock	Copper, Antimony, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Occurrence	Bornite, Chalcocite, Chalcopyrite, Covellite, Galena, Magnetite, Pyrite, Specularite, Sphalerite, Tetrahedrite
Curlew	Limestone, High Calcium	Occurrence	Sedimentary
Curlew	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Unknown
Kettle	Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Gold, Pyrargyrite
Lancaster	Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold	Past Producer	Replacement
Lancaster	Copper, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Silver	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite
Panama	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Copper	Occurrence
Panama	Gold, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Ferry County

Storms near this property

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Curlew, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 3 flood, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 1998	Wildfire	Curlew	$50,000	Lightning sparked many fires near Curlew lake in forest land. Over 40 fires were reported with over 1300 acres burned.
April 2018	Flood	Curlew	$20,000	A road washout cut out and collapsed a 20 foot section of Highway 21 just north of Curlew.
May 2018	Flood	Curlew	$5,000	Highway 21 along the Kettle River near the intersection of Big Goosmus Road was closed due to flooding.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Curlew	$2,500	Gust front from thunderstorm blew tree into house and powerlines. Minor structure damage occurred to house.
May 2017	Flood	Curlew	$1,000	The Kettle River flooded with water over Highway 21 near Little Goosmus Creek.
May 2023	Thunderstorm Wind	Curlew	$500	Social media reports of strong winds and minor damage to trees and property near and north of curlew. Damaged tree branches have a 3 inch plus diameter. Time and location estimated based on radar.

Every storm recorded in Ferry 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

2 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Curlew Bridge	0.2 miles	1982
	Curlew School	0.2 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 79002530 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ferry County	All 12 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.