Built in 1903 (Queen Anne style). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.
From the record
“Black House, also known as the Wahl House, is a historic residence located at 158 S. It consists of four stories and includes 10 bedrooms, six bathrooms, a library, a billiard room, a music room, a ballroom, and a wrap around porch.”
Wikipedia article Alfred L. Black House, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 74 National Register listings published here for Whatcom County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1903, Queen Anne style.
National Register reference number.80004012- 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
71 since 1993
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 71 fires within 5 miles of Alfred L. Black House
between 1993 and 2020, burning about 47 acres in total. 2 started naturally. 3 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
Recreation and ceremony
30
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
10
Smoking
8
Fireworks
6
Debris and open burning
6
Arson/incendiarism
3
Misuse of fire by a minor
3
Natural
2
Railroad operations and maintenance
1
Other causes
1
Power generation/transmission/distribution
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 2019
Natural
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
CALIFORNIA STREET MAPLE
7 September 2020
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
BLACKBERRY YARD
7 September 2006
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
5 September 2005
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
30 September 1998
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
23 September 2002
Arson/incendiarism
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
not named
2 September 2020
Debris and open burning
under an acre
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
STUART RD
16 September 1998
Smoking
1.2 acres
Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Alfred L. Black House: 7 past producers.
None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Clay, Flagstone, Magnesite. 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
Bellingham, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 1997 and 2023: 1 waterspout, 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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