Built in 1971. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
From the record
“Lewis Army Museum is a military museum at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in the state of Washington, U.S. It is housed in the historic former Red Shield Inn, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and can be seen prominently from Interstate 5.”
Wikipedia article Lewis Army Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1979 · category: Building · built in 1971.
National Register reference number.79002552- 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
16 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 16 fires within 5 miles of Red Shield Inn
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony
5
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
4
Debris and open burning
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
Fireworks
1
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Natural
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 August 2001
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
3 August 2002
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
28 August 1996
Railroad operations and maintenance
6.0 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
20 August 2000
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
10 August 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.8 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
KETRON ISLAND
7 July 2012
Misuse of fire by a minor
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
HINKLEMAN RD
28 July 1997
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
26 July 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1.2 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
4 workings within 5 miles of Red Shield Inn: 3 past producers, 1 occurrence.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Diatomite. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
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.
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.
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