J. H. Lotz House

Built in 1891. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

From the record

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1980 · category: Building · built in 1891.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Lotz, J. H., House - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 1004 2nd Ave., NW, Puyallup, 98371
When was it listed? March 1980
Category. building
Census division. Puyallup
When was it built? 1891
National Register reference number. 80004401 - 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 2012

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of J. H. Lotz House between 2012 and 2020, burning about 494 acres in total. None 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	494 acres	Washington State Fire Marshal's Office	SUMNER GRADE
16 October 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Hanford Reach National Monument	HANFORD TOWN SITE

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 26 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 26 workings within 5 miles of J. H. Lotz House: 23 past producers, 3 producers. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. 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
Anderson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Aztec Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Carl G. Olson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Firwood Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lidford Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Lundblad Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Marshall Ave. Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
McKinney Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Milcane Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce County

Storms near this property

2 since 2013

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Puyallup, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2013 and 2015: 1 lightning, 1 flood. 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
December 2015	Flood	North Puyallup	$25,000	Trailers in an RV park were flooded.
September 2013	Lightning	Puyallup	$5,000	Lightning struck a home and damaged several electrical items inside.

Every storm recorded in Pierce 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Christ Episcopal Church	0.4 miles	1994
Ezra Meeker Mansion	0.8 miles	1971
Puyallup Fish Hatchery	0.8 miles	2013
Ryan House	3.3 miles	1976
Herbert Williams House	3.7 miles	1984
Alderton School	4.0 miles	1987

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 80004401 in Record Group 79.
Pierce County	All 215 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.