BlockFrom the record
One of 32 National Register listings published here for Walla Walla County · listed in 1981 · category: Building.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Dixie High School
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Address. Off U.S. 410, Dixie, 99329
- When was it listed? July 1981
- Category. building
- Census division. Waitsburg
- National Register reference number. 81000593 - 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
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Dixie High School between 1998 and 2020, burning about 6,527 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 | 4 |
| Debris and open burning | 4 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 1 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 100 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 16 September 1998 | Debris and open burning | 85 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 27 August 2005 | Debris and open burning | 250 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | MUD CREEK |
| 22 August 2009 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | TOYOTA |
| 15 August 2020 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 90 acres | Walla Walla Fire Department | SEAMAN ROAD |
| 4 July 2020 | Debris and open burning | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | COPPEI |
| 29 July 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | 8.0 acres | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
| 24 July 2002 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters | not named |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Dixie High School: 4 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thanney Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer | ||
| Unnamed Quarry | Stone, Crushed/Broken | Past Producer |
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 81000593 in Record Group 79. |
| Walla Walla County | All 32 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.