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One of 52 National Register listings published here for Snohomish County · listed in 1981 · category: Site.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Horseshoe Bend Placer Claim
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
The listing
- Address. N of Sultan, Sultan, 98272
- When was it listed? May 1981
- Category. site
- Census division. Sultan
- National Register reference number. 81000590 - 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
55 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 55 fires within 5 miles of Horseshoe Bend Placer Claim between 1992 and 2020, burning about 32 acres in total. 8 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 | 16 |
| Debris and open burning | 11 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 10 |
| Natural | 8 |
| Fireworks | 4 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | SULTAN BASIN RD |
| 29 September 2012 | Smoking | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | KELLOGG LK RD |
| 24 September 1999 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 2 September 2019 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | BASIN |
| 13 September 1993 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 12 September 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | WOODS CREEK |
| 1 September 2004 | Natural | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | VAN BROCKLIN RD. |
| 1 September 2002 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 38 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 38 workings within 5 miles of Horseshoe Bend Placer Claim: 12 past producers, 12 prospects, 11 occurrences, 2 unknowns. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Sand and Gravel, Construction, Copper. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Northern | Gold, Silver, Copper | Prospect | ||
| Great Northern Prospect | Gold, Copper, Silver | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Pyrite | |
| Keystone | Copper, Gold, Silver | Prospect | ||
| Lockwood Pyrite | Gold, Copper, Sulfur, Silver, Iron, Zinc | Occurrence | ||
| Lockwood Pyrite | Gold, Zinc, Silver, Iron, Copper, Sulfur | Past Producer | ||
| Lockwood Pyrite Mine | Gold, Copper, Iron, Sulfur, Silver, Zinc | Occurrence | Chalcopyrite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Sphalerite | |
| Miller & Reynolds Prospect | Zinc, Copper | Unknown | ||
| Johnson | Copper | Unknown | ||
| Sultan Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
2 since 2006Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Sultan, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports between 2006 and 2015: 1 tornado, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| November 2015 | Flood | Sultan | $250,000 | The Skykomish River in Snohomish County near Gold Bar crested at its third highest level on record, over 7 feet above flood stage, the highest level since the record-setting November 2006 flood. Flood waters swamped the town of Sultan, about six miles downstream from Gold Bar, prompting rescue of one woman forced to climb out her home's front window. |
| June 2006 | Tornado (F0) | Sultan | - | Tornado stayed on ground for about a minute. No damage. |
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.
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 81000590 in Record Group 79. |
| Snohomish County | All 52 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.