Ritzville Carnegie Library

Built in 1907. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

“The Ritzville Carnegie Library, located in Ritzville, Washington, is a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1907 with a grant from Andrew Carnegie and still operates as Ritzville's library.”
Wikipedia article Ritzville Carnegie Library, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 13 National Register listings published here for Adams County · listed in 1982 · category: Building · built in 1907.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 302 W. Main St., Ritzville, 99169
When was it listed? August 1982
Category. building
Also known as. Carnegie Libraries of Washington TR
Census division. Ritzville
When was it built? 1907
National Register reference number. 82004192 - 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.

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Ritzville Carnegie Library: 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Ritzville Pre-Mix	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unnamed Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Daughters Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Quarry Site Ad-50	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Ritzville Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Wellsandt Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Adams County

Storms near this property

8 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Ritzville, the town this property stands in, in 8 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 2 hail, 2 funnel cloud, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 wildfire. The reports record 1 injury. 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
August 1998	Wildfire	Ritzville	1 hurt, $60,000	A tractor sparked a fire in a wheat field which was fanned by gusty winds. Over 20,000 acres were burned and a rancher was injuried.
June 2024	Thunderstorm Wind	Ritzville	$2,000	Several trees at the fairgrounds suffered significant damage. Time estimated. A nearby sensor recorded a max gust of 42 MPH.
August 2008	Thunderstorm Wind	Ritzville	$1,000	Strong outflow winds from a thunderstorm uprooted a large tree in Ritzville.
May 2020	Funnel Cloud	Ritzville	-	A member of the public reported a brief funnel cloud seen in Ritzville, Washington.
June 2001	Flood	Ritzville	-	Water flowed over a county road near Bauer Coulee and Harder Road.
June 2001	Hail	Ritzville	-	A severe supercell thunderstorm containing large hail and torrential rainfall moved from southwest to northeast across northern Adams County, first entering the county east of Warden and exiting the county north of Schoonover. The only observation from Adams County of hail size with this storm was a report of dime-sized hail at 500 PM PDT at the Franz Ranch Airport (23 WSW Ritzville). The hail caused a widespread swath of crop destruction that was 20 miles long and 2-3 miles wide, laying waste to about 22,000 acres of crops. The severity of crop damage in the storm's path suggests hail likely reached the size of golf balls. Hail piled up to a foot deep in some farm yards. In the center of the storm's path, nearly 100% of the wheat, barley, bean and pea crops were a loss.
July 1998	Funnel Cloud	Ritzville	-	Adams county sheriff reported a funnel cloud.
May 1997	Hail	Ritzville	-	3/4 inch hail

Every storm recorded in Adams 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

5 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
Dr. Frank R. Burroughs House	under 500 feet	1975
Adams County Courthouse	0.1 miles	2018
Ritzville Historic District	0.1 miles	1990
Nelson H. Greene House	0.4 miles	1980
Ritzville High School	0.5 miles	1994

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004192 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Adams County	All 13 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.
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.