Lutheran St. Paul's Kirche

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.

From the record

One of 12 National Register listings published here for Douglas County · listed in 1982 · category: Building.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Lake Ave., Douglas, 98858
When was it listed? April 1982
Category. building
Census division. Waterville
National Register reference number. 82004209 - 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 2014

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lutheran St. Paul's Kirche between 2014 and 2020, burning under an acre in total. 1 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
Natural	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
28 July 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Douglas County Fire Districts	MP 151
14 July 2014	Natural	under an acre	Washington State Department of Natural Resources Headquarters	COUGAR FLATS

Every fire recorded in Douglas County

Mines and quarries near this property

5 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 5 workings within 5 miles of Lutheran St. Paul's Kirche: 5 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.

Site	Commodity	Status
Dept of Highways	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Nelson Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Case Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Qs-Do-21	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Douglas County

Storms near this property

4 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Douglas, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2019: 2 flash flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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
July 2019	Flash Flood	Douglas	$1,000	Flash Flooding caused mud to flow over Highway 2 east of Waterville. The road was fully blocked by mud for about one hour while highway crews worked to clear the road.
August 2019	Flash Flood	Douglas	$500	Mud and debris from thunderstorm heavy rain blocked State Route 3 miles east of Douglas.
June 2015	Hail	Douglas	-	An emergency manager went through a thunderstorm on highway 97 south of Entiat. The storm produced moderate hail, heavy rainfall, and strong winds. Lightning ignited two new fires but the rainfall quuickly put them out.
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Douglas	-	72 mph gust from automated fire weather station

Every storm recorded in Douglas 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
Christian Schmidt House	3.4 miles	1994
Douglas County Courthouse	3.4 miles	1975
Smith Hospital and Douglas County Press Building	3.6 miles	1989
Nifty Theatre	3.6 miles	1999
William J. Canton House	3.6 miles	1988
Waterville Hotel	3.6 miles	1984

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 82004209 in Record Group 79.
Douglas County	All 12 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.