Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
From the record
“The Bigelow House, also known as the Bigelow House Museum, is a historic house museum located at 918 Glass Avenue Northeast in the Bigelow Neighborhood of Olympia, Washington. Built by Daniel Bigelow in 1854, the house was designed in the Carpenter Gothic style.”
Wikipedia article Daniel R. Bigelow House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 68 National Register listings published here for Thurston County · listed in 1979 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.79002562- 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
92 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 92 fires within 5 miles of Daniel R. Bigelow House
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 36 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/undetermined
34
Recreation and ceremony
22
Debris and open burning
12
Arson/incendiarism
7
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Fireworks
4
Equipment and vehicle use
4
Smoking
3
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Other causes
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 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
I-5 TRAIL SE
8 September 2011
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
MALL FIRE
8 September 2006
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
6 September 1993
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
5 September 2018
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
TROSPER LAKE
5 September 1998
Misuse of fire by a minor
1.5 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
30 September 1993
Recreation and ceremony
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
3 September 2020
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
25 workings within 5 miles of Daniel R. Bigelow House: 23 past producers, 2 producers.
2 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.
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.
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.
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.
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