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Photograph of Tukwila School
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Tukwila School

Built in 1920. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

From the record

“The Tukwila School, later known as Tukwila Town Hall and Tukwila Library, is a public building in Tukwila, Washington. Built in 1920, the former school was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.”

Wikipedia article Tukwila School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 324 National Register listings published here for King County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1920.

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. 14475 59th Ave., S., Tukwila, 98168
  • When was it listed? November 1979
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Seattle
  • When was it built? 1920
  • National Register reference number. 79002544 - 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

2 since 2006

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Tukwila School between 2006 and 2011, burning about 1 acre in total. None started naturally. 1 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
Arson/incendiarism1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined1

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
3 September 2011Arson/incendiarismunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources HeadquartersNORTH DUCKABUSH
5 July 2006Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWashington State Department of Natural Resources Headquartersnot named

Every fire recorded in King County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 30 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 30 workings within 5 miles of Tukwila School: 30 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Silica. 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
Renton Junction ASilicaPast Producer
Renton MineSilicaPast Producer
Black River QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Riverton QuarryStone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Riverton QuarrySand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast Producer
Bow Lake PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Coluccio PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Elliott PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Gravel PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer

Every working recorded in King 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
F.W. Woolworth Company Store2.5 miles2015
Building No. 105, Boeing Airplane Company3.6 miles1971
Jim and Betty Eng House4.2 miles2019
Untitled Earthwork-Johnson Pit #304.6 miles2021
Lakeview School5.1 miles1988
Tracy House5.1 miles1995

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 79002544 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
King CountyAll 324 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.